Re: Grub vs LILO

[Ayman Haidar <haidara@usol.com>]

Once upon a time Romain Lerallut (lerallut@eleves.enpc.fr) wrote:

   > Brian May wrote:
   > > 
   > > >>>>> "Romain" == Romain Lerallut <lerallut@eleves.enpc.fr> writes:
   > > 
   > >     Romain> I use grub, including scsi emulation for my CDR burner,
   > >     Romain> and I had no problem installing, none at all :-)
   > > 
   > >     Romain> However I'd like to know how to pass arguments to the
   > >     Romain> kernel when I boot: For instance, how do I start in
   > >     Romain> single-user mode ?  Do I have to predefine such things in
   > >     Romain> menu.lst, or is there another way ?  One that would not
   > >     Romain> clutter the nice menu.
   > > 
   > > In my grub I have:
   > > 
   > > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18 root=/dev/hda1 video=0x319
   > > 
   > But you can't modify those options before you actually log in, can you ?

you sure can, when it boots it has a nice quick help at the bottom, I
think hitting e (for edit) will let you edit the boot line and add
your specific commands

Ayman