[Sussex] configuring grub

[Colin King]

Hi

One neat feature of Grub is the ability to set the default kernel to
boot into using the "default" option in /boot/grub/menu.lst.  It's
usually set to zero to boot the 1st entry in the menu.lst.  An
alternative is to use "savedefault" option - this allows one to change
the default boot number at boot time - this information is saved into a
file in /boot/grub (note - if /boot/grub/ is on a RAID filesystem it may
make them inconsistent because grub writes the file using BIOS calls and
hence is not that intelligent)

Colin

On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 10:16 +0100, Dennis Dryden wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:50 AM, FRANK JAMES
> <frank.james4 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > I want to be able to get grub to log in automatically. The reason is running
> > an intranet server without keyboard, mouse and monitor, just mains and
> > ethernet connection. I am sure that it can be done, any help would be
> > appreciated.
> > Frank James
> 
> Edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst to have a default boot option and a
> timeout of 0 seconds for example:
> 
> default 0
> timeout 0
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Dennis
> 
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