On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 09:28:24PM +0100, Capt Beany wrote: > I had previously looked at the fallback features of > grub but there appears to be no way to get the system > to boot in the case of a corrupted menu.lst file (ok > so im paranoid :-)
GRUB has command line editing functionality (press 'b' in the menu), where you can manually specify the location of the kernel and initrd. I think this will always work, no matter how broken the menu.lst files is(?) Just make sure you don't delete the old kernel and initrd... Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org
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