On 10/17/17 08:02, Nick Holland wrote: ... > man boot has this: > > boot.conf processing can be skipped, and the automatic boot > cancelled, by holding down either Control key as boot starts. > ... > (I can rarely remember which key it is, so I often just hold > down CTRL, ALT and SHIFT on one side of the keyboard.)
That part is bad advice. Literally the second I hit "SEND", I remembered why one shouldn't casually hit the shift key during the boot. Shift during the execution of the first stage boot loader (biosboot(8)) forces it to use CHS reads instead of LBA reads. In many cases, it will still work. In some cases, no. So, "man boot", search for "boot.conf" if you can't remember "Control". Nick.
