[LinuxBIOS] reliable boot loader

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Sat Mar 31 14:58:53 CEST 2007


On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 09:28:24PM +0100, Capt Beany wrote:
> I had previously looked at the fallback features of
> grub but there appears to be no way to get the system
> to boot in the case of a corrupted menu.lst file (ok
> so im paranoid :-)

GRUB has command line editing functionality (press 'b' in the menu),
where you can manually specify the location of the kernel and initrd.

I think this will always work, no matter how broken the menu.lst
files is(?) Just make sure you don't delete the old kernel and initrd...


Uwe.
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