[clue-tech] I am looking for a GRUB2 GUI editor installed on a CD

[Shawn Perry]

You can always remaster an Ubuntu LiveCD

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:02 PM, YES NOPE9 <yes at nope9.com> wrote:
>>
>> On May 21, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Jim Ockers wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gus,
>>
>> YES NOPE9 wrote:
>>> I am looking for a GRUB2 GUI editor installed on a bootable CD
>>>
>>> I have looked around on intergoogle and have not found anything
>>>
>>>
>>> Gus S. Calabrese
>>>
>> What are you trying to edit? I don't understand the question. If you
>> get
>> the GUI GRUB boot menu you can use the keyboard to navigate through
>> the
>> GUI and change boot options etc. If you want to edit grub.conf on a
>> bootable CD that probably won't work because the CD is read-only. If
>> you
>> want to edit grub.conf on a hard drive while booted from a CD, your
>> best
>> bet might be to use a text editor since grub.conf is just a text file.
>>
>> Does that help?
>>
>> --
>> Jim Ockers, P.Eng. (ockers at ockers.net)
>> Contact info: http://www.ockers.ca/pason.html
>
> What I want is something like KGRUBEDIT or QGRUBEDIT installed on a
> bootable Linux CD.
> Then I can boot the CD and edit GRUB files on hard drives located on
> the computer of interest.
> I have already had a problem with a GRUB installation that somehow
> decided to have a timeout of zero seconds.
> I just saw the GRUB GUI flicker on the screen and then the boot
> continued.
> Yes, I fixed it by looking up the documentation that explained how.
> ( and hated every minute of it )
> I like editors like QGRUBEDIT and SWAT because they remind me of what
> is important about the application I am dealing with.  I am very
> visually oriented and dislike remembering commands.
>
> Gus
>
>
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