[NTLUG:Discuss] ubuntu 6.10 start up question

[Leroy Tennison]

Robert Citek wrote:
> 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
>
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I'm assuming from what you are saying that 'break' is a kernel 
parameter.  If not please explain.  if so, what distributions does it 
work on?  I just tried it on CentOS 4 (basically Red Hat Enterprise 
Linux 4) and nothing changed.  One time I edited menu.lst and added it.  
The second time I booted to a grub prompt and added it on the 'kernel 
...' command line with the same result.