Recovering from errors

[duncan brown]

one thing i noticed was your use of vga=0x31a, there is an easier method,
use the decimal equivalent.

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jludwig said:
> I have seen many really good hacks and many who love to play with this
> Release and Linux in general. What I haven't seen is any real advice on
> preemptive measures for error recovery. What do you do if you need only
> one or two files to fix the system but you can't get them because your
> system is down???
> One piece of advice I will give is this. If you have the hard drive
> space, or even a old hard drive lying around, make yourself a backup
> system. As seen below I have one (From my grub.conf) because I do screw
> things.
> title Fedora Core (2.4.24-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma)
>         root (hd0,1)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.24-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma ro root=LABEL=/1
> hdc=ide-scsi vga=0x31a
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.24-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma.img
> title Fedora Core (2.6.4)
>         root (hd0,1)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.4 ro root=LABEL=/1 vga=0x31a
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.4.img
> title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2174.nptl)
>         root (hd0,1)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl ro root=LABEL=/1 hdc=ide-scsi
> vga=0x31a
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.img
> title EMG Boot
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=/dev/hda3 /hdc=ide-scsi
> vga=0x31a
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.20-20.9.img
>
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