On 2/21/06, Kostas Sfakiotakis <kostassf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings Dotan , > > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 2/16/06, Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 22:07 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > >> > >> It does not "remember" your previous selection. It does *always* boot > >> the kernel marked as default unless you make some other selection from > >> the menu. > >> > > > > Can I only boot from options in the menu? If I _know_ that I want to > > boot from hdb8 or from (1,8) > > Watch out here !! This is partially wrong counting . Yes indeed > hdb is the Primary Slave ( the Second IDE Hard Disk of the system ) > But 8 is the seventh partition of hdb so in order to boot from > hdb8 you would have to ask grub to boot from (1,7 ) . > By all means you can do that while the computer boots , at the > boot menu press "e" make the change and go ahead ..... > > Kind Regards, > Kostas > Thanks you Kostas. You provided the most useful information here: what the press and how to access the partition that I want. True, I did figure it out in playing with the system in the last few days, but your complete answer is appreciated nonetheless. Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/question/how_can_i_be_safe_online.html
