Re: grub menu item to get to command line
Michael West <web@mitzit.net> writes:
> Actually I would like to be able to type in my kernels root
> filesystem at boot time like I can with lilo.
>
> My idea of how to do this is to have a menu item which just dumps
> me to the grub command line and then I can do whatever I want.
> How is this done?
> Is there I different way to do what I want?
>From the GRUB menu, you can press 'c' to get a command line or 'e' to
edit the commands that will be run by the current menu entry. I
assume you don't have *too* many possible root filesystems, though;
you could also just throw all of the options into /boot/grub/menu.lst.
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