On 02/24/2013 06:39 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Am 22.02.2013 21:10, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: >> On 02/22/2013 03:04 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> Am 22.02.2013 20:58, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: >>> >>>> Once before (5+ years back) I had to add a kernel param and did it wrong and >>>> it was a big recovery challenge >>> what is the challenge? >>> there is no difference add or remove a param at boot >> If you get the option wrong and the system will now not boot? Then you >> have to boot from a recovery CD, mount your harddrve /boot and edit out >> the change from grub.conf and try again. All the time you SHOULD have >> been working on something else. > Nah. Just go into GRUB's kernel command line edit mode during boot and > remove the offending option to get the system up. Then you can edit > grub.conf at your leisure. The one time it happened to me, this did not work. I can't find the details, but I think I had some other option set and I could not get into this. I seem to recall the problem was the video option and driver for the DecTop that had the Anode chip. For install, I even had to build a special iso with the proper drivers in. But for a couple years, those DecTops were fun to play with. One of the first fanless affordable systems; at the time I was working with a small group that was looking into a home server. Something that is commodity now. But I will remember this for the next time! Oh, I recently pulled one out of the dustbin to put XP on it as a client test system. Around here, I need to watch my pennies and I try to use what I have... _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos