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

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

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 :)