On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05/02/2012 07:48 AM, Jon Moore wrote: > > It's been a while since I've used Fedora, but as I recall it doesn't >> show the grub menu by default and has an extremely short timeout >> period. Pressing the ESC or similar should cause the menu to appear. >> There is a sweet spot between POSTing and grub booting the kernel that >> you have to manage to hit. I've always just starting mashing the key >> as soon as the system started posting. You're luck my differ on that. >> >> Good luck. >> >> Jon >> >> Jon wins the prize for understanding the core problem. I am not yet > able to log into the machine so any discussion of copying files or sudo is > premature. Thank you for that pointer, Jon. I have looked at the Fedora > documentation which confirms what you say. When I did reboot the system, I > mashed keys but apparently I am still missing the very narrow "sweet spot" > as you describe it. > > Once into the system, I am confident about resetting the password; it is > just getting to grub so that I may boot in single user mode to accomplish > that task. > > Failing to get to grub will then cause me to boot the machine from a live > disk and go at things that way. The custom here seems to be to create a > boot partition and then lump all remaining space into lvm. I don't know > who's bright idea that was... > > Howard Fedora documentation says "GRUB defaults to being hidden .... Press and hold the shift key before the kernel is loaded. (Any other key works as well but the Shift key is the safest to use." Paul -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
