First I live mostly in Windows and a set of IBM hardware called Power Systems. I am a educated 'user' not an admin on any PC based OS so here goes my story.
I was able to boot from the CD and then poke around on the hard disk. With help from the list here I found the file /boot/grub/grub.cfg. Never did find the suggested menu.lst I believe someone mentioned. This files first line is DO NOT EDIT this file. I made a backup and then edited away. There are many groups starting with menuentry and ending with a } . I removed the 2 sets referring to the -39 kernel and saved the the file. The system now boots. If I run update-grub it would read the folder with the boot images and would put the -39 entries back in. So for now I I have deleted all the files from the /boot that had the -39 in the name then reran update-grub and all is well or at least back to working. Still having a problem finding the actual parm(s) to set so grub will pause a few seconds on boot before starting the default. Maybe I will bring it to the clinic next weekend. Thanks for the help and for tolerating a grumpy user. -- Kirk _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
