[Tfug] grub question

[Matthew Eskes]

John,
Ah, wasnt not aware of that. I have never had to use any of those commands 
in automagic. *shrug*
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Gruenenfelder" <johng at as.arizona.edu>
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] grub question


> 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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