Boot menu and its options (Linux, Linux-nonfb, Fail Safe)

[zillah]

When I finished a fresh installation of Mandrake 10.1 official, I have got this message when I booted the Machine :

((Here are the entries on your boot menu so far.

You can create additional entries or change the existing ones.

Linux (/boot/vmlinuz)*

Linux-nonfb (/boot/vmlinuz)

Fail safe (/boot/vmlinuz)

Windows (/dev/hda1)

Windows1 (/dev/hdb1) ))


I chose option 2 (Linux-nonfb (/boot/vmlinuz) ),,,I found nothing.

Is this what suppose to be ?

[AndrewB]

no frame buffer, basically it disables gfx etc
you can remove them in by commenting them out in /boot/grub/grub.conf

[linuxuser40351]

You should just go to "Linux".

[AndrewB]

You should just go to "Linux".

i think he is aware, he was just curious

[zillah]

i think he is aware, he was just curious

Yes you are right.

[zillah]

you can remove them in by commenting them out in /boot/grub/grub.conf

Then why it has been put in the menu list ?

[linuxuser40351]

They're kind of like quick access to the Linux equivalent of safe mode. If you kill something and cannot start an x server you can use nonfb to boot straight to the command line and fix the problem from there.

[AndrewB]

They're kind of like quick access to the Linux equivalent of safe mode. If you kill something and cannot start an x server you can use nonfb to boot straight to the command line and fix the problem from there.

why would you need to?
you would be able to go to a vt
ie.
ctrl+alt+f2

[zillah]

Then why it has been put in the menu list ?

ctrl+alt+f2

Can we use it for all linux flavour ?

[teluguswan]

i think this is very helpful but i dont find failsafe mode

please give the help on how to start the computer in failsafe mode

any one