grub>root ([tab] Possible disks are: fd0 hd0 this is a laptop compaq armada 7770 The Wandering Dru wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > nate at refried.org wrote: > > | On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 08:20:51PM -0600, Jim Crumley wrote: > | > |> At the grub prompt you can find out the name of the files on your > |> disk. > | > | > | I remember doing this several years back but I can never figure out > | how to do it when I need to. Could you please explain to the list, > | step for step, how to do this? > | > Just like you do at the bash prompt, TAB completion. At the boot > prompt, hitting the TAB key will give a list of commands you can use. > If you put in "root" and then "(hd"<TAB>, it will give a list of > possible partitions, choose one, <TAB> again and it will give you a > list of files on that partition. Doing this, it's quite easy to boot > a system without even having a conf file. > > - --Andy > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFAIcBKiwhv4FBqkV8RAg/0AJoCt13Pt1U0zVznE2Lrl+pNLr7nvQCghXVL > j3rkEYk6XGN4LrLoE8j/92k= > =RTuC > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list