[ale] GRUB issue on boot

[James Sumners]

Umm, you can edit the boot parameters of a LILO profile. Let's say you
forgot your root password, LILO is your bootloader, and you only have
one profile defined named "Linux". That profile is going to be
configured to load a typical production system but you need it to boot
the system differently. Okay, no problem. Type the profile name
followed by the parameters you want; e.g. `Linux root=/dev/hda1
init=/bin/sh`. "Command line" edited and problem solved. No funky keys
pressed. No obscure commands to tell the bootloader what you are
trying to do.

On 4/13/06, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 22:19 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> > All of your "features" are pretty, but they don't really mean much for
> > a production system that just needs to boot. Chances are, that machine
> > won't be booting so much that it needs all the fancy features of Grub
> > its bootloader.
>
> Grub allows me to edit a command line where lilo does not.  I've used
> this feature to bring a production system back to the living.



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