On Wednesday 08 October 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So in grub2 I chose "e" to edit, and changed the lines to > linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=UUID=... rdinit=/bin/sh > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686 > hit ESC then RET, and alas it was like I didn't type anything at > all but just hit RET, booting proceeded as usual, and /proc/cmdline > shows that my changes to that command line were thrown away.
That's normal behaviour, if you press ESC all your changes are gone. The solution is not to press ESC, but Ctrl-x instead. There's also a hint about that in the online help below the editor frame. Niels Böhm _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
