[ale] alternate boot using GRUB or others?

[Richard Kolkovich]

On 09/21/06 11:43, Jerry Yu blabbered::
> 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

 From the Grub FM:


SEE ALSO
        The full documentation for grub is maintained as a Texinfo 
manual.  If the
        info and grub programs are properly installed at your site, the 
command

               info grub

        should give you access to the complete manual.

That was the key to look at info (along with there being no 'man 
grub.conf').  Man usually suffices, though.

Glad it helped!

-- 

Richard Kolkovich
sarumont at sigil.org