[Tfug] grub question

[John Gruenenfelder]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:06:22PM -0700, Matthew Eskes wrote:
>Actually, thats not quite the right thinking...
>The GRUB config file is parsed like any other confile file in Linux, 
>meaning that if there is is a hash mark there, it is ignored. For those 
>options to take effect, you still need to uncomment them. This leads me to 
>somewhat of any odd question, if you have a half gig of RAM, why are you 
>wanting to use only a quarter gig? Anyway, even if it is in "automagic", if 
>you need to make a change, you still need to uncomment them, iirc.
>
>Matt

Actually, though he did not specifically state it, I believe Joel is using
Debian.  In the Debian GRUB config file, there are "automagic" sections where
you can set parameters for all GRUB menu items to use.  These are hidden
behind hash marks because they are not valid GRUB lines.

Which brings me to a point for Joel:

Though you don't need to run any program to make GRUB itself use the new file,
if you change the automagic sections, you must run update-grub in order for
the changes to take effect.  Have you done this?


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