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Re: move/overwrite a file in Grub2 shell?


From: Thomas Mueller
Subject: Re: move/overwrite a file in Grub2 shell?
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 05:52:28 +0000 (UTC)
User-agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies)

> 
> So, I can get into the Grub2 shell (sh:grub) by typing 'c' in the boot
> menu, and ls to my /etc/X11/ directory (and cat both my xorg.conf and
> xorg.conf.bkp files) but what I want to do is overwrite xorg.conf with
> the backup and hopefully make my blank screen go away.
> 
> Is this possible to do in the Grub2 shell? As in, is there some way to
> overwrite my xorg.conf with the backup?

I would start in single user mode (append "single" to the kernel options 
in grup). 

it then will boot into single user mode without graphics and present a 
root login shell.

- Thomas





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