new feature - suggestion

2003-01-19 Thread Eric Duda
Title: Message It would be nice to have a lifetime timeout timer. For example, normally the timeout = x value is fine, but what if i hit ESC during bootup. now it's not going to timeout. ok, if locally on the system, but bad if on a modem. this could happend with line noice from the modem (w

Re: Feature suggestion

2001-07-20 Thread Dave Cinege
Joshua Jensen wrote: > > There are all different sorts of > editors, but one of the smallest ones I've found is Nano ( > http://www.nano-editor.org ), which is only 72k. Could this be Only 72K? Don't do much embedded work, huh? ; ) > integrated into grub? This would make GRUB even better! The

Re: Feature suggestion

2001-07-19 Thread Mathias Granberry
You can append "init=/bin/sh" to the kernel line and bring up a shell instead of init. From there you can remount your root partition and edit any files that you need to. As for an editor, all of the filesystem support in the grub is readonly, so there isn't much hope for an editor (or saving me

Feature suggestion

2001-07-19 Thread Joshua Jensen
Gentlemen, I am loving GRUB. Nice stuff you have there! I've got an idea that probably isn't new, but it might be possible. GRUB, if you can at least get it to boot, has the ability to "cat" files, which is cool. How about editing them? I know, I know... you're not going for a full OS here, bu