Kernel Installation Bug

Matthew S-H mathbymath at aol.com
Tue Apr 5 16:32:55 UTC 2005


My only question about this is how can a commented line take effect?  I 
thought it was the standard in Linux config files that a commented line 
was ignored?  Is this not the case?

And thank you very much for the pointer.  I really appreciate it :).


~Matt


On Apr 5, 2005, at 1:11 AM, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:12:48AM -0400, Matthew S-H wrote:
>> I just wanted to point out a little bug I've run into recently when
>> installing kernels.
>> Each time a new kernel is installed, it replaces /boot/grub/menu.lst.
>> The bug is that it keeps changing the "root (hd1,0)" line into "root
>> (hd0,0)".
>
> This is not a bug.  Read the instructions in /boot/grub/menu.lst, and 
> edit
> the line which reads:
>
> # groot=(hd0,0)
>
> to:
>
> # groot=(hd1,0)
>
> but do not uncomment it.
>
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>  - mdz
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