Comments on: Don’t touch grub unless you have a boot disk http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/seth/2008/05/09/dont-touch-grub-boot-disk/ A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:54:36 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tom http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/seth/2008/05/09/dont-touch-grub-boot-disk/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Tom Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:30:53 +0000 http://Specialization.IsForInsects.com/?p=25#comment-19 When on grub's command-line, try: configfile (hd1,5)/boot/grub/menu.lst and it will load the menu you usually see. At this stage you can press 'e' to edit some of the entries. If you do: configfile (hd It will list all hard drives, then once you had chosen which hard drive your /boot partition is, you can press again to see which partitions. Needless to say, grub is pretty cool. When on grub’s command-line, try:
configfile (hd1,5)/boot/grub/menu.lst

and it will load the menu you usually see. At this stage you can press ‘e’ to edit some of the entries.

If you do:
configfile (hd
It will list all hard drives, then once you had chosen which hard drive your /boot partition is, you can press again to see which partitions.

Needless to say, grub is pretty cool.

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