Grub Manual ... Solved
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sat Oct 20 17:28:58 UTC 2007
On Saturday 20 October 2007, William Case wrote:
>Hi Gene;
>
>I was very glad to see your post. Comments below ...
>
>On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 12:33 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
[snip lengthy repeat]
>You make the same point I was trying to make but make it with much more
>specificity.
Thanks for the flowers.
>That the same or similar words have different meanings
>when used with Grub and with Linux. That if you are working with Grub
>use the Grub meanings; if you are working with Linux use that Operating
>Systems vocabulary. That was what I was trying to show by talking of
>Grub being a kind of separate, independent operating system.
>
>It can be hard on a newbie to have to keep Linux 'root' in one
>compartment of the brain, while keeping the meaning of Grub 'root' in an
>other compartment. But it is not an impossible feat; humans do that
>kind of thing all the time.
Yup.
>It is much simpler to do if you are warned ahead of time that you will
>be called upon to play that mental game. Your explanation above would
>suffice to give that warning in a manual or info.
Unforch, its not IN the man pages in quite that language.
[...old sig]
>Kept your signature 'cause I love it.
Its been there for quite a while. 2-3 years at least. Apropo I think. The
point being that the first 3 boxes haven't been all that successfull in
recent times.
>--
>Regards Bill
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Cheers, Gene
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