Re: Grub vs LILO

[Romain Lerallut <lerallut@eleves.enpc.fr>]

Thanks all!
just what I wanted to know
Romain

Ayman Haidar wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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