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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
