On 19/05/2012, at 9:20 AM, Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
e.g. my grub boot menu on my main machine at home currently looks like this:
# grub-list-kernels.pl 0 Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 1 Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (recovery mode) 2 Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 3 Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (recovery mode) 4 Network boot (iPXE) 5 Bootable floppy: LSI 6 Bootable floppy: freedos-bare
Default: 0 Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64
craig
ps: for the OP - if you every wondered why grub has the option for setting a password, then disabling the ability to edit the boot command line is one of the main reasons...useful in, e.g., a computer lab at a university, but anyone who has physical access to the machine can defeat simple security measures like this.
Agreed. That's essentially the discussion we were having when where mucking around with grub; that to make that kind of edit you needed physical access and so any measures like grub passwords were superfluous. In your grub menu example above do the bootable floppy options point to a floppy image e.g. an iso, or to a real device? Colin.