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Article #545Re: How can I tell what grub will do on the next reboot without rebooting?
From: Dan Jacobson
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 23:30
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 23:30
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"Colin Watson" <cjw44@flatline.org.uk> ���g��l�� news:8vc9o1$u26$1@riva.ucam.org... > Dan Jacobson <jidanni@kimo.FiXcomTHiS.tw> wrote: > >How can I tell what grub will do on the next reboot without rebooting? > >Looking at a configuration file might not reflect the true state of grub's > >next reboot plan. > > Install it onto a floppy disk and boot from that, without changing your > current setup? huh, the floppy's still busted on mandrake 7.2 anyway: can't I just do $ grub --show-what-will-do-at-next-boot and it will output what it plans to do at next boot without really booting. Does it have such a feature? -- www.geocities.com/jidanni E-mail: restore ".com." �n���� Tel:+886-4-5854780; starting in year 2001: +886-4-25854780
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