Re: Can Grub bypass menu.lst when it contains an error?

[Gabriel]

Clive Menzies wrote: On (28/12/05 07:27), Bill Moseley wrote: I added a splashscreen to grub, but had a typo in the device: (hd1,0) instead of (hd0,0). This caused grub to continue to cycle upon boot (I guess trying to read the non-existent drive) before the boot menu is shown. I couldn't see how to get grub to just ignore menu.lst on boot and give me a grub prompt -- for example, by holding down a special key sequence. Did I miss something obvious in the docs? http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#General-boot-methods You could try holding 'c' which is what you do on Debian From Scratch to get a grub prompt: http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/html/dfs.html Regards Clive Or you can use a liveCD and fix your Grub's menu.lst. -- Cheers -- Gabriel Parrondo Linux User #404138 "In theory there's no difference between the theory and the practice. In the practice There is."