Grub config file editing

[Dotan Cohen]

On 2/21/06, Kostas Sfakiotakis <kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr> wrote:
> Greetings Dotan ,
>
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 2/16/06, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 22:07 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> >>
> >> It does not "remember" your previous selection.  It does *always* boot
> >> the kernel marked as default unless you make some other selection from
> >> the menu.
> >>
> >
> > Can I only boot from options in the menu? If I _know_ that I want to
> > boot from hdb8 or from (1,8)
>
> Watch out here !! This is partially wrong counting . Yes indeed
> hdb is the Primary Slave ( the Second IDE Hard Disk of the system )
> But 8 is the seventh partition of hdb so in order to boot from
> hdb8 you would have to ask grub to boot from (1,7 ) .
> By all means you can do that while the computer boots , at the
> boot menu press "e" make the change and go ahead .....
>
> Kind Regards,
>    Kostas
>

Thanks you Kostas. You provided the most useful information here: what
the press and how to access the partition that I want. True, I did
figure it out in playing with the system in the last few days, but
your complete answer is appreciated nonetheless.

 Dotan  Cohen
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