Grub documentation

Christopher Beland beland at alum.mit.edu
Mon May 11 09:13:45 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 12:23 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> I often have problems just getting into the grub menu.
> 
> It used to be that you could push any key (not the ANY key) but now it
> seems that I'm meant to push a specific key, but which one I don't know.
> 
> Rolling through TAB, L-SHIFT, L-CTRL, R-SHIFT and R_CTRL seems to give
> the best outcome, but doesn't always work.

That seems like a basic issue that should be documented for anyone who
might have more than one copy of the kernel installed, and want to pick
which one to run...


On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Cannon, Andrew C wrote:
> Okay, this is a very simple question, with probably a very simple answer, but I
> cannot for the life of me work out how to put in the alternative method 'linux
> askmethod' at the grub screen.

It looks like the default changed for Fedora 10, and any key should work
but SHIFT is recommended:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10/en_US/What_is_New_for_Installation_and_Live_Images.html#sn-GRUB

Should GRUB be documented in the sysadmin documentation:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Administration_Guide_Draft

Or perhaps this appendix to the install guide should be expanded to
clarify both these points?

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html/ch-grub.html

It looks like the kernel option syntax is documented:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html/s1-grub-commands.html

but the confusion was differences with:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html/ap-admin-options.html

and neither really links to a list of available kernel options.

-B.




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