[NTLUG:Discuss] ubuntu 6.10 start up question

[Robert Citek]

C.Wesbrooks wrote:
> Is there some thing that I can do while it is starting up, with Grub, to
> see what has failed?

Yes.  Some things to try:

- At boot up select the "recovery mode" kernel.  That will give you lots
of verbose message and drop you into a root shell.

- Add the "break" option to the grub kernel line at boot.  That will
pause the boot process at a few spots.

> Is there some way to pull a file and look at the Grub default kernel,
> (this is a second question) it is loading the i386 kernel and I have
> and wish to use the i686 kernel.

Yes.  The file is /boot/grub/menu.lst.  If you post the results of this
command, we could guide you further:

grep -v -e '^ *#' -e '^ *$' /boot/grub/menu.lst

If you need help with any of the above, please post back.  Good luck and
let us know how things go.

Regards,
- Robert