On Friday 27 February 2009 02:18:26 Celejar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was just greatly disturbed to find that I am unable to edit my grub
> command lines (with 'e') or to get a command shell (with 'c'). This
> used to work, although I can't remember the last time I tried it.
> Googling indicates that this is what happens when grub is locked, with
> 'password' command in menu.lst, but I have not done that! What could
> be causing this? I can still select a kernel choice with the cursor
> keys and the carriage return.
Well, that is precisely the locked behavior.
I can think of two things to try.
Firstly, the "is it plugged in" question is, are you *sure*
that's your menu.lst file? Might there be another one, maybe
in /grub (as opposed to /boot/grub)? Have you accidentally
mounted something overtop of the root FS's /boot directory,
so the menu.lst that grub sees and the one you see are
different?
Secondly, if this is indeed the right menu.lst, try setting
a password, and see if it works, and then unsetting it.
Also, I noticed you have some Windows entries -- I suppose
it's possible that Windows has messed things up somehow.
-- A.
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Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net
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