[ale] alternate boot using GRUB or others?

[Jeff Lightner]

I don't like info.  I find it an annoying interface and don't see what
benefit it has over man except that it can also read the man page.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Jerry Yu
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:43 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] alternate boot using GRUB or others?

 

great. Thanks, Richard. This should work for me, since kernel is not in
yet in my case. Recently, I VMed my real linux boot into a VMWare guest
running on XP host. As a result, the real boxen and the VMed linux share
the same grub.conf but have different ideas on which is hd (1,0) and
which is hd(0,0).

Shame on me, I should have RTFMed. wait, I did read man page but it
doesn't say anything about fallback. The info page does. ...sigh... time
for me to move on. I disliked the GNU's move from man to info and still
read my man pages, aware of caveat they may not be as updated as their
info counterparts.  hadn't ran into trouble until now! wonder how many
people truly like the info page besides whoever manages them. 

On 9/21/06, Richard Kolkovich <sarumont at sigil.org> wrote:

On 09/19/06 17:26, Jerry Yu blabbered::
> I have a few boot entries in my GRUB. I'd like to be able to specify
which
> boot entry to try next, if the entry specified by "default=0" errors
out.
> Right now, I was prompted to press a key or 'enter' to get to the GRUB
menu 
> to manually choose one.  Since GRUB obviously is aware of the error,
it's
> conceivablly easy to try second entry (arbitrary entry specified, or
from
> top to bottom by default)?
>

>From 'info grub': 

fallback 1

That should make grub boot choice 1 after the default fails (and a
certain timeout - 30 seconds, says info).  Note that once the kernel has
control, this will not do anything.

--

Richard Kolkovich
sarumont at sigil.org


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