I keep a Knoppix CD around to aid in recovery from this kind of
disaster... It means you donīt have to use the inadequate tools in grub
to find the kernels.
Whats more, its got the man pages for grub on it (I donīt 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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