Re: Help required

[Pallav Jain <b330bkn@xxxxxxxxx>]

your welcome for you like the link.  as you say if i appended those lines at the end of the file /boot/grub/menu.lst, it would have any other impact except that what is given though the contents are not those which were are written in that link, still it is safe to append that at the end of the file. editing for that particular file (menu.lst) from my side is only to add those lines which are written to add in that file after searching for a particular string of characters, which is as follows:

## 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 was not there in the case of my menu.lst file, even though should i go? people say abt its EOL, but solving the problem is good even though it has not reached EOL.

thx

 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: stan <gryt2@xxxxx>
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:59:16 -0700
Subject: Re: Help required
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.

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