[ltp] Help Needed

[skipper]

Hi Richard,

I forgot that! - does "tab key" auto complete?

Once I'm at root I can run mc as before - just getting there. I was so 
sloppy. So stupid having got Linspire up and running oh well.

We had bad weather and living on a boat I did a night watch so I was up 
24 hrs and then up all the next day I decided to edit my menu.lst - not 
a wise move - oh well. It's another long day - I have grub manual on win 
drive - just getting the kernal and other commands right and my brain's 
going!

Regards,

David


Richard wrote:
>>
>> Chopped off the contents ..................... I screwed up my grub
>> menu.lst file in /boot/grub - this is after getting Linspire up and
>> running on a fresh install - BUT I killed it on going to CNR which after
>> installing an update of the CNR programme killed my keyboard, mouse,
>> nic. Oh well UBUNTU here I come!
>>
>> What I need to do is create a bootable linux floppy - that will read my
>> hard disk - I then need to have a very small editor on it so I can edit
>> my menu.lst file. I downloaded debian and created two floppies - ash and
>> nano could not access (mount) hard disk. I have also got a grub boot
>> floppy but there's nothing to edit menu.lst with 
>> ........................
>>
>
> Hi David,
>
> The nice thing about grub (unlike lilo) is that you don't need to edit 
> the menu.lst file outside grub - you can use the grub command prompt 
> directly.
> The syntax is a bit weird, but it should work. Press "esc" before grub 
> tries to boot the default option. Then, you need to specify the 
> correct values for
>   hd(X,Y)
>   kernel=
>   initrd=
>
> Grub has the ability to search, and to cat. So, it's posible to find
> a working kernel and initrd, even if you don't know what they are 
> named exactly, or on which disk/partition to look.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Richard
>
>
> P.S. If you can't mount the hard disk using the boot floppy method, 
> what command are you trying to use?  What is the filesystem type? 
> (probably ext3 or reiserfs).