Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 408

the GRUB text-based menu then press
current boot and are not adopted permanently.
IMPORTANT: Keyboard Layout during the Boot Procedure
The US keyboard layout is the only one available when booting. See
"US Keyboard Layout"
Editing menu entries facilitates the repair of a defective system that can no longer be
booted, because the faulty configuration file of the boot loader can be circumvented by
manually entering parameters. Manually entering parameters during the boot procedure
is also useful for testing new settings without impairing the native system.
After activating the editing mode, use the arrow keys to select the menu entry of the
configuration to edit. To make the configuration editable, press
edit incorrect partitions or path specifications before they have a negative effect on the
boot process. Press
to boot this entry. Further possible actions are displayed in the help text at the bottom.
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To enter changed boot options permanently and pass them to the kernel, open the file
menu.lst as the user root and append the respective kernel parameters to the existing
line, separated by spaces:
title linux
kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 additional parameter
initrd (hd0,0)/initrd
GRUB automatically adopts the new parameters the next time the system is booted.
Alternatively, this change can also be made with the YaST boot loader module. Append
the new parameters to the existing line, separated by spaces.
21.2.2 The File device.map
The file device.map maps GRUB and BIOS device names to Linux device names.
In a mixed system containing IDE and SCSI hard disks, GRUB must try to determine
the boot sequence by a special procedure, because GRUB may not have access to the
BIOS information on the boot sequence. GRUB saves the result of this analysis in the
file /boot/grub/device.map. For a system on which the boot sequence in the
BIOS is set to IDE before SCSI, the file device.map could appear as follows:
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. Changes made in this way only apply to the
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to exit the editing mode and return to the menu. Then press
Enter
Figure 52.1,
again. In this way,
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