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On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 06:15:12AM +0000, hadi motamedi wrote:

The answer is easier to read and follow if you type it directly under
the question. Also, removing old text helps as well.

> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Chris Bannister <
> mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz> wrote:

[snip]

> - How can I check if it is running splashy ?

I don't know - I've never run it or even looked at it, but apt-cache
policy splashy might help.

> - No , I don't want to make these changes permanent . I want to change them
> for that one reboot . So I want to touch grub edit menu.

OK.

> - Please find below the output of grep -v '^#' /boot/grub/menu.lst :
> title Debian GNU/Linux,kernel 2.4.27-2-386

That is a really old kernel. Are you running Sarge?

> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386
> savedefault
> boot
> title Debian GNU/Linux , kernel 2.4.27-2-386 (recovery mode)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro single

Look! You already have a single user mode.

> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386
> savedefault
> boot

--

Chris.

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