Grub Manual

[Karl Larsen]

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?




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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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