On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 03:38:23PM +0000, 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. > >
> You could try holding 'c' which is what you do on Debian From Scratch to > get a grub prompt: That seems to only work if the splashscreen works -- otherwise, it seems to try and load the splashscreen before processing the "c" so that's not a way around the problem. Another reason to keep a bootable cd around. Luckily I had a netinstall cd still in my cd tray. ;) -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
