Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

[Dale]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 09/02/2010 11:46 AM, Dale wrote:
>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:12:45 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would like either the old IDE drives to come first, since I rarely
>>>> ever move them or grub to work with labels. I have a entry in
>>>> grub.conf that uses the labels but i have not rebooted yet. According
>>>> to what I have read it will work. The only concern is that if grub
>>>> doesn't like labels and I add another drive, then I got to edit the
>>>> grub boot line to boot and it took me a couple tries to get this
>>>> right. It seeing what used to be the last drive first sort of took me
>>>> by surprise. I don't like surprises to much.
>>> Press c to get the GRUB command line and then use find to identify your
>>> root partition - find /etc/fstab will work unless you have two root
>>> partitions. There's no need for suck-it-and-see editing of config
>>> files,
>>> you only have to change menu.lst after you have found and tested the
>>> correct boot options.
>>>
>>
>> I know I switched to grub from lilo because it was user friendly but I
>> haven't used this feature. So instead of hitting "e", I hit "c" and it
>> gives me something similar to what I get when I type grub into a console
>> when booted? I did a man grub here and I don't see that documented. Is
>> this documented somewhere?
>
> Yes.  When you press ESC in Grub to go to text mode, it says right
> there that you can press "c" to enter edit mode :)
>
>

I was hoping for something like a man page or something tho.   I would 
like to read up on this a little before jumping in head first.  Does it 
have a little info on screen on what does what at least?  I think the 
edit screen does but not sure about this part.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)