July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Chapter 4: Boot Methods
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modulenounzip
modulenounzip files
Like module, except that automatic decompression is disabled.
pause
pause messages
Print the specified message and wait for a key to be pressed before
continuing.
quit
quit
Used only from within the grub shell to exit from the shell. In the
native command environment, use reboot instead to reboot the
computer.
read
read addr
Read a 32-bit value from memory at the specified address and
display it in hex.
reboot
reboot
Reboot the system.
root
root device [hdbias]
Set the root device to the specified device and attempt to mount it
to get the partition size (and some additional information for
booting BSD kernels). If you are booting a BSD kernel, you can
specify hdbias to tell the kernel how many BIOS drive numbers are
before the current one.
rootnoverify
rootnoverify device [hdbias]
Similar to root, but don’t attempt to mount the partition. Used
when you are booting a non-GRUB-readable partition such as
Windows.
savedefault
savedefault
Save the current menu entry as the default. GRUB will default to
that entry the next time you boot the system.
setup
setup [options] install_device [image_device]
Set up installation of GRUB and run the install command to actu-
ally install GRUB onto the device install_device. Find the GRUB
images on image_device if ...
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