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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 06:29:47
Message-Id: 201005070728.24211.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure by Dale
1 On Thursday 06 May 2010 17:03:54 Dale wrote:
2 > Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 > > On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:03:59 -0500, Dale wrote:
4 > >>>> Did you mean press e ?
5 > >>>
6 > >>> No.
7 > >>
8 > >> I don't see anything in the man page about hitting the c key. What
9 > >> does that do? I've used e, b and such but never heard of c.
10 > >
11 > > It drops you to the grub command line, it's documented on the GRUB menu
12 > > screen itself, just after it tells you about e.
13 >
14 > Oh OK. I didn't reboot and read that part. lol I learned something
15 > today. Just hope I will remember it when I need it. ;-)
16
17 'c' is good as long as the error is only with the GRUB entry. I usually find
18 that on new installs the causes of failure to boot may be deeper and I will
19 need to chroot back into the installation to fix things; e.g. reconfigure the
20 kernel, add drivers and what not.
21 --
22 Regards,
23 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>