To get to the Grub boot menu (so you can boot to memtest86, or change kernel
command-line arguments), hold down Shift while booting, right as the BIOS loads
the boot sector from the hard disk.
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From: "gene heskett" <ghesk...@wdtv.com>
Date: Sun, Oct 23, 2011 11:58
Subject: [Emc-users] Got sort of a PITA here
To: <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
On Sunday, October 23, 2011 01:49:46 PM gene heskett did opine:
> Greetings all;
>
> My machines box has been very unstable, crashing anytime the ambient is
> under about 65F since I switched its memory 512m of ram for 2G worth of
> the right stuff, ddr1 I think it is. Signs on as 333 mhz FSB which is
> normal for that mobo. The old memory did too.
>
> What is the magic key combo to get rid of the graphics and let me see
> the grub screen so that I can run the memtest86 I know is in the grub
> menu, bearing in mind this keyboard boots with the F-keys disabled?
>
> I've also tried to boot from your 10.04 LTS install cd, but it goes
> straight to the language selection.
>
> It will boot and run, probably long enough for me to switch the grub
> default to memtest, is that the way to do this?
>
> Cheers, Gene
/boot/grub/grub.cfg says not to modify it, that its generated by, among
other things, from the /etc/default/grub file. So I took the 'quiet
splash' out of that file, but it made no diff. It still boots directly to
the installed kernel, when post eventually gets done, it is, since I added
the memory, about 1 minute from powerup to the post's initial ok beep
before the video signs on. That seems excessive since it only takes it a
couple seconds to scan 2G of memory and report it.
>From that I assume there is a new grub install command I need to run, but
what is it?
And since there is only one kernel version installed, the choice is default
0 for that kernel, but is memtest86 then the default = 1?
In which case how would I get out of that loop & back to a normal boot?
Thanks guys.
Cheers, Gene
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