See comments below On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 22:13:15 +0530 Pallav Jain <b330bkn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I like the fedora project and i installed the fedora core 11. and did > the basic tasks from: > > http://www.fedoraguide.info/ I'd never seen this page before. Thanks for the link. ;-) > > As a new user, I had some problem: > > "While going at: > How to disable all interactive editing control for GRUB menu at: > http://www.fedoraguide.info/index.php?title=Main_Page#How_to_disable_all_interactive_editing_control_for_GRUB_menu > my /boot/grub/menu.lst contents are as follows: > > ********************************************************* > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to > this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > # root (hd0,7) > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro > root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root # > initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda > default=1 > timeout=9 > splashimage=(hd0,7)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > hiddenmenu > title Fedora (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586) > root (hd0,7) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 ro > root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root rhgb quiet > initrd /initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586.img > title WinXP > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 > > ********************************************************* > > which is as if, I am opening grub.conf, amazing. I don't know why it > is happening. I request you to please let me know how to make it come > or repaste from somewhere in FC11. /boot/grub/menu.lst is a symbolic link to the /boot/grub/grub.conf file in the same directory. As is /etc/grub.conf. There is no problem here. See man ln for some explanation. [snip] > But as listed at the url: > > http://www.fedoraguide.info/index.php?title=Main_Page#How_to_disable_all_interactive_editing_control_for_GRUB_menu > > Nowhere are being seen the following contents: > > ## password ['--md5'] passwd > # If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all > interactive editing # control (menu entry editor and command-line) > and entries protected by the # command 'lock' > > which should be in '/boot/grub/menu.lst' I suspect that the documentation is out of date. I don't use encryption, but I don't recall ever seeing those lines in a menu.lst file that I was editing. You can try just adding them into the file. In that file a hash mark, '#', in front of a line means that the line is a comment. The instructions at the above link seemed pretty clear about the procedure. If something is missing, just add it while editing, though you don't have to add comments as they are ignored anyway. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
