31 Mar
2007
31 Mar
'07
5:58 a.m.
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.