Configuration of GRUB:

the configuration file is on the (first) boot floppy in \boot\grub\menu.lst (actually in menu.gz = compressed format which may be edited with F4 in midnight commander)

Here is an example entry in menu.lst: (every paragraph is one single line in menu.lst; the parameter cfgdev refers to configuration file spblinux/spbcfg)

title  Net config=1, addons from basics, doc

echo   loading kernel and ramdisk ...

kernel /boot/kernel vga=791 spbrootsize=32 root=/dev/sda1
spbconf=cfgdev=sda1,addons:subdir=basics:doc,net:config=1 reboot=warm no-hlt panic=30

initrd /boot/ramdisk

vga=791 selects the vesa 1024x768 mode

spbrootsize=32 selects the size of the ramdisk (32MB)

color depth

640x480

800x600

1024x768

1280x1024

1400x1050

1600x1200

256 (8bit)

769

771

773

775

32000 (15bit)

784

787

790

793

65000 (16bit)

785

788

791

794

834

884

16.7 Mill. (24bit)

786

789

792

795

  spbconf=... defines one big kernel parameter which configures SPB-Linux (see also file /etc/spb.conf):

• keys=ge, keys=sg or keys=us (german, swiss german or us keyboard layout; us keyboard is default)
• lng=ge, lng=us (midnight commander F2 menu in german or in english language; english is default
• cfgdev=sda1 (the next parameters are read from file /spblinux/spbcfg in /dev/sda1; useful because the length of the linux boot commandline is limited)
• addons:subdir=basics:doc load bz2-addons from subfolders basics and doc (in folder spblinux)
• spbwait=15 wait for second floppy (with init6.bz2); only required when booting from floppy
• addons:changefloppy=yes load additional bz2-addons froma third floppy and prompt user to insert this floppy

Good to know: when the grub boot menu is displayed, you can type e and edit the boot parameters during the boot process.

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