| Art Alexion on 10 Sep 2005 01:56:14 -0000 |
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gyoza@comcast.net wrote: >Art Alexion wrote: > > > >>I had no idea "update-grub" was doing anything with the commented out >>stuff. I guess the single comments (#) prevent grub from reading the >>lines and the double comments (##) prevent grub-update from reading. >> >> >> >> >> >The thing about the comments is very useful to hear about since I didn't >take the time to read the comments thoroughly. > >I had an experience with Ubuntu and Grub recently. I made a change to >the config, then, according to instructions, I ran update-grub and the >changes were undone. So I made the changes again and did not run >update-grub and it was OK. Hmm. > > Right. Every time Ubuntu released a security update for the kernel, grub got mangled. I had to edit the boot lines from the grub menu to get it to boot and then manually change hd1 to hd0, and hdb to hda. for future boots. I never ran grub-update, either. However, dpkg ran it when updating a kernel and that's where the problem was. There are two places where changes are necessary in the comments to prevent future damage by grub-update. -- _______________________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC arthur [at] alexion [dot] com aim: aalexion sms: 2679725536 [at] messaging [dot] sprintpcs [dot] com PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A The attachment -- signature.asc -- is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html Key for signed PDFs available at http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/ArthurSAlexion.p7c The validation string is TTJY-ZILJ-BJJG. ________________________________________ Attachment:
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