Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:40:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 11/13/08 21:30, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:23:27PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >>[snip]
> >>>If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package.
> >>[Sigh] Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug...
> >>
> >>This is the 21st Century. Only crotchety old geezers have computers
> >>with floppy drives in them.
> >>
> >
> >OK. Why isn't there a grub-stick package to dd onto a UBS stick?
>
> Excellent question. The Ubuntu LiveCD is adequate to the task,
> though. (I tried the "standard" Lenny LiveCD, but after searching
> for my CD drive on sda, it turned my screen a weird pixelated grey.)
GRML 0.9 has grub on it too. It takes a lot longer to dl an .iso than a
floppy image. Hard to fit a standard CD in a shirt pocket.
Presumably if you installed Debian, you'll have the installation media.
That can be booted and you can chroot to your root drive to fix
problems. I did that on Potato, Sarge, Etch...
Doug.
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