Grub Manual
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Sat Oct 20 22:46:19 UTC 2007
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>
>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> ... At first look at what it takes in the file /grub/grub.conf to
>>>> boot a Linux system.
>>>>
>>> quite simply, there is no file named "/grub/grub.conf".
>>>
>> That's where grub will find it, assuming /boot is a separate
>> partition from the OS perspective since grub does not have access to
>> anything else during the boot process. And the place you think the
>> grub.conf file lives is really a symlink.
>>
>
> *sigh*. i'm aware of all that -- i was simply pointing out that, not
> two paragraphs into his allegedly new-and-improved GRUB tutorial, karl
> referred his readers explicitly to a file that simply does not exist,
> with no caveat about how this relates to /boot or separate partitions
> or anything else that would explain why, if the reader went looking
> for that file, they'd never find it.
>
> and, at this point, i think i'll just go back to spectating and being
> amused. trying to educate karl is sort of like, well, like this:
>
> http://amybrennan.blogs.com/Ginger.jpg
>
> rday
>
You rday are the most self-centered person I have ever had the
unhappy time to meet. I agree the paper I wrote was poor. It is in
re-write but it still includes that there is a file called grub.conf and
if your working with grub you better know what it says. Or do you think
it is just a file?
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
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