On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Chris Bannister < mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 12:46:36PM +0000, hadi motamedi wrote: > > Thank you for your reply . > > - Yes , my computer boots to a login prompt . > > Good. Then DON"T mess with grub-install. > > > - When I press the 'e' key , nothing happens and after the timer expiry > the > > boot process will begin automatically . So I don't have chance to edit my > > boot kernel . > > - I don't see the grub menu . I just see the Debian logo and a timer that > > counts down automatically . > > Ahhh, that might be the reason. You running splashy? > > > - I want to be able to edit the menu say putting it into single user mode > by > > adding 'single' at the end of the line , etc. > > I presume you want to make this change permanent. The only way to do > that is by editing /boot/grub/menu.lst and running update-grub. > > You did run 'update-grub', didn't you? > > Editing the menu by pressing the 'e' key does not write any thing to > menu.lst - it only allows you to change 'things' for that one boot. The > changes are lost after that. > > But if you can't see the menu when you boot, how can you select "single > user" mode anyway? <scratches head.> > > But you should already have a single user mode if you ran update-grub. > > What is output of: > > grep -v '^#' /boot/grub/menu.lst > > -- > Chris. > ------ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > Thank you for your message . - So I won't try for 'grub-install' . - How can I check if it is running splashy ? - No , I don't want to make these changes permanent . I want to change them for that one reboot . So I want to touch grub edit menu. - Please find below the output of grep -v '^#' /boot/grub/menu.lst : title Debian GNU/Linux,kernel 2.4.27-2-386 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386 savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux , kernel 2.4.27-2-386 (recovery mode) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386 savedefault boot Thank you
