[ale] alternate boot using GRUB or others?

[Jerry Yu]

confimed. It does work for me. Great!

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