Kernel Installation Bug

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Tue Apr 5 16:43:41 UTC 2005


On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:32:55PM -0400, Matthew S-H wrote:
> 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?

/boot/grub/menu.lst is weird and doesn't entirely follow this
convention; while grub itself pays no attention to commented lines
there, comments in certain parts of the file (explained by the
instructions in the file itself) are used by update-grub.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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