interrupt grub so that I can interactively, temporarily, modify the boot line?
I'd like to do various things in grub to modify how the kernel will boot. For example, using kernel command line parameters to stop in the ramfs init, or normal init.
When I do a reboot in lish, it just complains that the screen has gone away.
thanks.
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jhartman
Linode Staff
As I understand, the boot process would only pause as-described if you had a disk partitioned with alternate distribution/operating systems. I wasn't able to halt the boot process by pressing "E" like in a bare-metal Linux system, so I'm not sure if you can make the changes you want exactly as described.
I think instead you should be either using a custom compiled kernel, or you could make changes directly to your /etc/default/grub file to enable/disable specific features. For more information on using a custom compiled kernel or modifying the provided kernel, be sure to check out these guides: