Re: Grub questions

["Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@gmail.com>]

On 09/03/2008, T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:19:35 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
>  > I have a debian system that I need to reconfigure grub for. Some questions:
>  >
>  > 1) How can one browse a partition in grub (ls, pwd)?
>
>
> Not directly browsing, but grub gives you feedback what the partitions
>  are. See:
>  http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/disk/boot/boot06-Grub/ar01s09.html#Hardcore_GRUB_No_Menu
>
>
>  > 2) How can one mount a partition to read text files from it, from within
>  > grub?
>
>
> Same trick, pressing the TAB key all the way from partition to the text
>  file you want. Just use the command 'cat'.
>
>
>  3) Can I write to menu1st from within grub? How?
>
>
> AFAIK, no, BTW, It's named menu.lst (as in "el"-s-t, not 'one'-s-t). Ref:
>  http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/disk/boot/boot06-Grub/ar01s09.html#Do_Really_Need_GRUB_Menu_
>

Thank you for the tutorial link. I think that I can take it from
there. Why didn't google get me there?...

Dotan Cohen

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