On 09/03/2008, T o n g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:19:35 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > I have a debian system that I need to reconfigure grub for. Some questions: > > > > 1) How can one browse a partition in grub (ls, pwd)? > > > Not directly browsing, but grub gives you feedback what the partitions > are. See: > > http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/disk/boot/boot06-Grub/ar01s09.html#Hardcore_GRUB_No_Menu > > > > 2) How can one mount a partition to read text files from it, from within > > grub? > > > Same trick, pressing the TAB key all the way from partition to the text > file you want. Just use the command 'cat'. > > > 3) Can I write to menu1st from within grub? How? > > > AFAIK, no, BTW, It's named menu.lst (as in "el"-s-t, not 'one'-s-t). Ref: > > http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/disk/boot/boot06-Grub/ar01s09.html#Do_Really_Need_GRUB_Menu_ >
Thank you for the tutorial link. I think that I can take it from there. Why didn't google get me there?... Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
