Grub
From Wsms
Note: This page should be titled grub (all lowercase). It is Grub due to technical limitations of Mediawiki.
grub stands for Grand Unified Boot Loader. You want it to be installed correctly or your machine won't boot. grub supersedes lile
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tips
Many distributions, including Linuxmint, pass the quiet and splash options to the kernel. You may not want this, especially when you are trying to figure out why your machine is not booting. Edit /etc/boot/grub/menu.lst and remove the options.
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Interactive startup
You can view the output from the kernel booting.
Shit Shift-PgUp lets you scroll back.
You have to edit /etc/inittab (on Fedora) or /etc/event.d/tty1 (on all Ubuntus before 9.10). Add the --noclear option to the getty.
exec /sbin/getty --noclear 38400 tty1
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