What we mean is that the CONTENTS of the grub configuration file MUST have a line like:
The REAL someinitrd.img.gz MUST exist IN the same partition as grub. Softlinks will work IF the real file is still in the same partition.
How do you get an awk output into columns i.e.
awk (print $1,$2,$3) doesn't come out into nice columns but lots of lines of txt want something more like.
I am crap
at unix so
give me a
hand thx Rich (3 Replies)
Hi,
I remember once seeing a way to get the left most string in a word.
Let's say: a="First.Second.Third" (separated by dot)
echo ${a#*.} shows --> Second.Third
echo ${a##*.} shows --> Third
How do I get the the left most string "First" Or "First.Second" ???
Tried to replace #... (2 Replies)
i have a script in sh. with awk, e.g. want to list all the contents of a subdirectory an a tabular way.
ej: outoput
directory1
subdirectory1 subdirectory2 subdirectory3
file1 filen file2 filez
file2 ... filen+1 ... (1 Reply)
guys,
i am writing a .ksh file to ssh to a remote machine and change all occurances of .ixf to .WIP like this :
-->>> for i in *.ixf do echo $i done mv $i $i.WIP exit <<---
--> this returns .ixf.WIP - i can live with that.
then i need to sftp from another remote machine, copy the files... (5 Replies)
Is there a patch available to support initramfs on the 2.4 kernel? We can't upgrade to 2.6 for legacy purposes. All I found on google were early references to how initramfs is better than the 2.4 initrd.
Thanks much! (0 Replies)
Long story short, I had a ps3 with both Lenny and Sid repositories. Knowing this is a bad idea and that Lenny is being deprecated I decided I wanted to move everything to Sid. I changed my repos and ran apt-get-update, upgrade, dist-upgrade. Had one warning during the apt-get upgrade that... (0 Replies)
Hello,
I am working on an Urdu to Hindi dictionary which has the following structure:
a=b
a=c
n=d
n=q
and so on.
i.e. Headword separated from gloss by a =
I am giving below a live sample
بتا=बता
بتا=बित्ता
بتا=बुत्ता
بتان=बतान
بتان=बितान
بتانا=बिताना
I need the following... (3 Replies)
Imagine I have an unbootable system where I need to update the kernel image using update-initramfs.
I have seen numerous examples online which show the following
$ mount -t proc none /mnt/ubuntu/proc
$ mount -o bind /dev /mnt/ubuntu/dev
$ mount -o bind /sys /mnt/ubuntu/sys
After that we... (8 Replies)
Hi all,
In Oracle, I am using SQL*Plus and selecting all rows in a table and spooling to a file as pipe delimited. I have to use pagesize 0 but unfortunately, using this option excludes the header and I can't get around having it to display the header fields.
So to get around this, I have to... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
grub-setup
GRUB-SETUP(8) System Administration Utilities GRUB-SETUP(8)NAME
grub-setup - set up a device to boot using GRUB
SYNOPSIS
grub-setup [OPTION...] DEVICE
DESCRIPTION
Set up images to boot from DEVICE.
You should not normally run this program directly. Use grub-install instead.
-a, --allow-floppy
Make the drive also bootable as floppy (default for fdX devices). May break on some BIOSes.
-b, --boot-image=FILE
Use FILE as the boot image [default=boot.img]
-c, --core-image=FILE
Use FILE as the core image [default=core.img]
-d, --directory=DIR
Use GRUB files in the directory DIR [default=/boot/grub]
-f, --force
Install even if problems are detected
-m, --device-map=FILE
Use FILE as the device map [default=/boot/grub/device.map]
-r, --root-device=DEV
Use DEV as the root device [default=guessed]
-s, --skip-fs-probe
Do not probe for filesystems in DEVICE
-v, --verbose
Print verbose messages.
-?, --help
give this help list
--usage
give a short usage message
-V, --version
print program version
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.
DEVICE must be an OS device (e.g. /dev/sda).
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>.
SEE ALSO grub-install(8), grub-mkimage(1), grub-mkrescue(1)
The full documentation for grub-setup is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and grub-setup programs are properly installed at
your site, the command
info grub-setup
should give you access to the complete manual.
grub-setup (GRUB) 1.99-12ubuntu5 October 2011 GRUB-SETUP(8)