Editing grub boot menu

[Joachim Backes]

On 08/09/2012 09:27 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On 09/08/12 07:14, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
>> Sometimes, when something goes wrong there is a need to edit grub boot
>> menu items. Unfortunately, it's very hard to change longer lines that
>> need to be folded. This happens in Fedora 17 installed on my physical
>> computer and in Rawhide in qemu/kvm vm. It is very hard to find the
>> right position of the cursor above the place I'd like to change.
>>
>> Is there any way to make editing grub menu entries during boot easier?
>>
>>
>> Mateusz Marzantowicz
>>
> 
> yum install gpm
> systemctl enable gpm.service
> systemctl start gpm. service
> 
> you now have a mouse to position where you want.
> 

Hi Frank,

do you really want to use gpm for editing the grub menu during grub
boot? I think, gpm only supports the usage of the mouse in some tty
after the system has booted. It's no usable by grub (that's my knowledge).

Kind regards

-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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