[Solved] 11.10 doesn't see my USB printer

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 4:17 AM, David Shochat <david.shochat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Ioannis Vranos
> <ioannis.vranos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Also I think there shouldn't be any menu.lst file. That was from GRUB 1.
>>
> Yes, I think you are right that menu.lst is for GRUB 1. And
> /etc/default/grub is for GRUB 2. So since I have the former and not
> the latter, I clearly have GRUB 1. Interesting. This is obviously a
> system that has been updated to Oneric (11.10). If someone were to
> install Oneiric from scratch (from an ISO) rather than update, would
> he/she be given GRUB 2?

Yes.

I think you should upgrade to GRUB for 2 reasons:

1. GRUB 1 has been abandoned.

2. GRUB 2 is more flexible, and by editing /etc/default/grub makes
things easy to configure it (and update-grub will be picking your
latest kernel automatically).



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