Re: single-user boot

[Adam Olsen]

I remember something about it having the timeout set to 0, because in older
versions of grub 0 meant wait forever, and that the config didn't get
changed when it was made to mean wait 0 seconds instead.  Perhaps that's
what it is?

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 09:05:34 -0600 (CST)
> To: Neal H Walfield <neal@cs.uml.edu>
> From: Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb@wolfram.com>
> CC: "Alan P. Laudicina" <alanp@osiris.unixpower.org>, help-hurd@gnu.org
> Sender: help-hurd-admin@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: single-user boot
> 
> I think he's refering to the way the GRUB boot disk is originally set
> up.  First, it doesn't find your installation, then it gives you five
> options to boot from, in which case you hit "c" or something to give you
> the command prompt.  My guess is that he's got something bootable where
> the GRUB disk is expecting it, and its trying to boot it instead of
> showing him the option screen.  Unfortunately, I don't know enough about
> GRUB to help you out...
> 
> Jon
> 
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 06:29:34AM -0500, Alan P. Laudicina wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hey,
> > > 
> > > Am I the only one that isn't getting the "five options" when booting
> > > grub-0.5.95.image?  It automatically tries to boot sd0s1 (which isn't
> > > even there)!  Thus, I have to give it a new partition, making it
> > > impossible to login single-user.  What am I missing here?  I can't
> > > bring up the grub> prompt!
> > 
> > What are the ``5 options''?
> > 
> > -Neal
> > 
> 
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