-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2009-06-15 at 12:14 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Probably what he means is the Grub shell. If boot fails due to some system change the bootloader doesn't know about or understand, one can use the Grub shell to interactively locate & load a kernel & initrd to get booted, then via that virtually normal boot find and fix whatever went wrong, all without hunting down some media to perform a rescue boot, or needing to figure out why rescue and/or chroot doesn't work right.
When boot fails and I get to the grub shell, I have to boot something else to read grub instructions, as I can't do anything. I end by booting the system somehow and reconstructing grub - which is more or less the same I did with lilo, with the difference that lilo I can understand and memorize, grub not. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAko2zDoACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VT7ACeNJx+Y4X9K1YM8MWKym9L7NYx +VYAoIhvFg1X72qUIZqjzpPB/gVqipQn =ofJL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org