From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 07:28:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005070728.24211.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BE2E86A.10304@gmail.com>
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On Thursday 06 May 2010 17:03:54 Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:03:59 -0500, Dale wrote:
> >>>> Did you mean press e ?
> >>>
> >>> No.
> >>
> >> I don't see anything in the man page about hitting the c key. What
> >> does that do? I've used e, b and such but never heard of c.
> >
> > It drops you to the grub command line, it's documented on the GRUB menu
> > screen itself, just after it tells you about e.
>
> Oh OK. I didn't reboot and read that part. lol I learned something
> today. Just hope I will remember it when I need it. ;-)
'c' is good as long as the error is only with the GRUB entry. I usually find
that on new installs the causes of failure to boot may be deeper and I will
need to chroot back into the installation to fix things; e.g. reconfigure the
kernel, add drivers and what not.
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Regards,
Mick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-07 6:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-06 8:37 [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure Roger Mason
2010-05-06 11:52 ` Mick
2010-05-06 12:38 ` Roger Mason
2010-05-06 12:51 ` Mick
2010-05-06 13:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-06 13:34 ` Dale
2010-05-06 14:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-06 15:03 ` Dale
2010-05-06 15:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-06 16:03 ` Dale
2010-05-07 6:28 ` Mick [this message]
2010-05-07 8:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-06 14:19 ` Roger Mason
2010-05-09 21:46 ` Walter Dnes
2010-05-10 15:18 ` [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure [solved] Roger Mason
2010-05-07 8:51 ` [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure Peter Humphrey
2010-05-06 14:25 ` Stroller
2010-05-06 15:37 ` Roger Mason
2010-05-06 16:03 ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-05-06 16:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-07 7:07 ` Andrea Conti
2010-05-07 10:03 ` Roger Mason
2010-05-07 11:30 ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-05-07 13:33 ` Roger Mason
2010-05-08 14:16 ` [gentoo-user] Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label claude angéloz
2010-05-08 19:30 ` Mick
2010-05-10 16:01 ` Paul Hartman
2010-05-12 20:00 ` Mick
2010-05-12 20:47 ` Paul Hartman
2010-05-12 21:47 ` Mick
2010-05-12 21:59 ` Paul Hartman
2010-05-12 22:22 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-05-13 21:08 ` Stroller
2010-05-13 22:12 ` Mick
2010-05-13 23:21 ` walt
2010-05-14 11:34 ` Tanstaafl
2010-05-14 12:23 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-14 14:45 ` Tanstaafl
2010-05-15 14:58 ` walt
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