Kernel Installation Bug

[Bob Nielsen]

In a grub menu, it takes two octothorpes (##) for a comment (yeah, it's
strange).

Bob

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?
> 
> 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.
> >
> >-- 
> > - mdz
> >