Alternative booting

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Chris Jones wrote:
>> Well, I don't fault GRUB for not booting the OS when it gets fed wrong
>> info. What I squarely blame GRUB for is that at the grub> prompt no
>> reasonable means of recovery are available, at least not in my case.
> 
> It could well be that during your updates, the file /boot/grub/grub.conf is 
> rewritten. If it is, and if it is the case that your bios has issues reading 
> parts of your / partition, then it could well be that grub cannot read its 
> own config file... At which point I'm not sure what you expect it to be able 
> to do for you.
> 
> Chris
> 
If you install a new kernel, you just about have to rewrite
grub.conf to add an entry for the new kernel. You can get around
this by using generic links to the kernel you want, but this is not
the default.

Mikkel
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