On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:57:53AM -0700, ms419@freezone.co.uk wrote: > > I set timeout=0 - to cut down my boot time - but now I broke my kernel > & need to get to the boot: menu - thats not good, you should have a timeout of at LEAST 1 second to avoid this situation. > Is there a key/combo to hold down to get to the boot: menu? no, if you have extremely good timing a well placed tab might halt the boot process, but I doubt it. your best bet is boot into OF (command-opt-o-f) and perform the following boot hd:\\:tbxi linux.old where linux.old is the label name of your working kernel image. replace hd: with appropriate OF device of your bootstrap partition. (printenv boot-device) yaboot will behave as it normally does except the default label will be what is supplied on the command line as opposed to default= or the first image= section. if you don't have a linux.old or so defined (bad you) you can also specify a path, eg: boot hd:\\:tbxi /boot/vmlinux.old root=/dev/hda3 ro -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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