First my apologies for a few misthreaded posts in the last hours; I've switched to sylpheed and it has a re-edit which is not the same as edit-as-new :-) I'm pasting-in below the last of those misthreaded postings.
A suggestion for the manual: Clarify that grub-mkrescue makes a rescue floppy/CD that boots into full grub command mode and not into 'rescue mode' (as I had presumed and others might also presume). One would normally think of the menu interface as normal-mode and of the command line interface CLI as the rescue-mode. Maybe this last limited-CLI mode could be called something other than rescue-mode (bare-bones, dire-straits, or something). To follow up on the posting below, the floppy I made with grub-mkrescue does in fact boot into full command line mode and I have booted a partition using grub > linux (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz grub > initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd grub > boot as well as using it to hand over to a custom menu file with configfile (hd0,6)/boot/user/grub.boo) Another suggestion: In 'rescue-mode' the set command with no arguments appears to list what has been set but in a syntax different from what may have been used to set whatever. This too can be very confusing. set root=(hd0,1) set root=hd0,1 set root=((hd0,1)) set root=(hd0,1) see what I mean? The rescue-mode posted earlier was the result of an incomplete write to the hd root and me thinking that I was booting a floppy (which I was not). ============================================ I made a floppy made with grub-mkrescue. /usr/local/bin/grub-mkrescue --output="/home/u3/grub2.dd" dd if=/home/u3/grub2.dd of=/dev/fd0 2456+0 records in 2456+0 records out 1257472 bytes (1.3 MB) copied, 91.3278 s, 13.8 kB/s The floppy boots into grub rescue and lists commands that are not available. Then grub rescue > insmod normal no such disk how do I insert the normal module in order to continue either with an itemized commanded boot or with a configfile command? =============================================== -- _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
