https://www.enodev.fr/enSun, 10 Mar 2024 09:58:50 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://www.enodev.fr/posts/send-f10-to-grub-with-minicom.htmlChristophe Vu-Brugier<p>I recently had to modify the kernel command-line of a machine that I accessed with a serial console. GRUB displayed the following message explaining that I had to <em>"press Ctrl-x or F10 to boot"</em>.</p> <div class="code"><pre class="code literal-block"><span class="nv">Minimum</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">Emacs</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="nv">like</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">screen</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">editing</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">is</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">supported</span>.<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">TAB</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">lists</span> <span class="nv">completions</span>.<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">Press</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">Ctrl</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="nv">x</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">or</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">F10</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">to</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">boot</span>,<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">Ctrl</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="nv">c</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">or</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">F2</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">for</span> <span class="nv">a</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">command</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="nv">line</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">or</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">ESC</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">to</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">discard</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">edits</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">and</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">return</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">to</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">the</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">GRUB</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">menu</span>. </pre></div> <p>Unfortunately, pressing F10 in minicom was equivalent to hitting ESC: my changes were discarded and I was sent back to the GRUB menu.</p> <p>It turns out that the following keystroke sequences allow to send F10 with minicom: ESC+O+Y or ESC+0.</p>GRUBMinicomserial consolehttps://www.enodev.fr/posts/send-f10-to-grub-with-minicom.htmlFri, 08 May 2015 18:00:00 GMT