proper way to write changes in grub.conf
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Jan 10 19:04:12 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 12:41 -0600, Mike Klinke wrote:
> On Monday 10 January 2005 12:04, John Aldrich wrote:
> > Is there a nice GUI or something to help me make sure I don't
> > screw up my grub.conf? I'm trying to make my mouse work better
> > with my KVM and have edited the grub.conf to add the
> > "psmouse.proto=imps" to the end of the kernel line, and have
> > saved it, but I don't know how to properly write it to the
> > system. I know if it were LILO, I'd just run "/sbin/lilo" as root
> > and it would be updated, however, just running "/sbin/grub" asks
> > for more options, that I haven't got a clue about!
> > Thanks
> > John
>
> If you simply want to try different options without changing the
> files, press the letter "e" at the grub display when booting up
> before it times out. Navigate to the kernel line and press the "e"
> key again. Now add whatever you want to test to the line and then
> press "b" which will cause you to boot with that new line. This
> line will only be in effect for the duration of that session and
> this way, you've not made any changes to the system configuration
> so it will revert back to the previous line next time you boot.
>
just a note of interest on this.
"a" does the same thing, but it only modifies the kernel line, and when
done with editing the <enter> key will boot with those changes.
To me, shorter, easier, and less chance of modifying something else.
> Regards, Mike Klinke
>
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