When's 50:50 80:20 against???

menu.lst/grub.conf used to have a link to /etc/grub.conf so those
converting from (/etc/)lilo(.conf) could find it easily (:

Steve

On Fri, February 3, 2006 2:35 pm, Nick Rout wrote:
>
> On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:28:37 +1300
> Hadley Rich wrote:
>
>> On Friday 03 February 2006 14:24, Nick Rout wrote:
>> > No no , grub.conf is read on the fly on bootup.
>> >
>> > which is why you can edit from any of your operating systems and have
>> the
>> > changes operative on the next reboot.
>>
>> That's what I understood too. Also, grub.conf is (as Steve mentioned) a
>> distro
>> specific thing and the actual file as distributed with grub is menu.lst
>>
>> hads
>
> ahh yes, and are usually symlinked from one to the other (can't recall
> which way round, and it may be that grub has actually changed to
> grub.conf and menu.lst is kept for backwards compatibility, but don't
> quote me on that.)
>
>>
>> --
>> Absence makes the heart go wander.
>
> --
> Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>


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