I keep a Knoppix CD around to aid in recovery from this kind of
disaster... It means you don�t have to use the inadequate tools in grub
to find the kernels.
Whats more, its got the man pages for grub on it (I don�t think its got
the info page though), so you can then just write the correct grub.conf
from within knoppix, save it and re-boot.
Your comment about it being nice having to test it still stands though.
Ben.
On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 22:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 11 Jan, Lyle Chapman wrote:
> > I have put in what I
> > think are the right params in grub, but I get a parsing error.
>
> Personally, although grub is more powerful and flexible than lilo, I
> think it suffers from a major, major flaw: after changing the grub
> config file, there's no way to run grub to test whether that config
> will work. You just have to cross your fingers and reboot and hope for
> the best.
>
> At least running /sbin/lilo tells you instantly if you've got
> /etc/lilo.conf correct or not.
>
> <rant>
> And if you do happen to find yourself in the invidious position of
> having a hosed grub config (e.g. if you started installed SuSE 9.2 and
> then realised you'd forgotten to note down the pre-existing partition
> mount points, and abort the installation continuing with setting the
> partitions, only to discover that it hosed your existing grub boot
> config) - then even knowing that you have workable Linux kernels on an
> un touched partition somewhere, if you could just remember where they
> were - well, that's tough, since grub has insufficient built in
> commands to let you find them, since it has no equivalent of "ls" in
> its toolset. The closest you can come is test for the existence of a
> named file ("find") or use tab completion
>
> Oh, wait, wait, that's how you do an ls: you remember the string
> "root (<TAB>" and "kernel /<TAB>" and you can work your way through the
> filesystems. A little harder to remember than a command with a name
> (like "ls" or "find"), but what can you expect from people who prefer
> GNU "info" to Unix man pages?
> </rant>
>
> luke
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