Re: Name of config file looks ambiguous to GRUB newbies

2004-03-26 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 25 March 2004 20:14, David Horton wrote: A lowercase 'L' looks a lot like a number '1' so it is difficult to tell if the config file name should be 'menu dot list' or 'menu dot first'. Use a better font. If you cannot distinguish l from 1, you should have many other problems as

Re: Name of config file looks ambiguous to GRUB newbies

2004-03-26 Thread Leendert Meyer
On Thursday 25 March 2004 14:47, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:46:48PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:11:07PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: I'm a zealot. To me the correct one would be ./etc/grub.conf And everyone with a Unix-brain will

Re: Name of config file looks ambiguous to GRUB newbies

2004-03-26 Thread David Horton
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: On Thursday 25 March 2004 20:14, David Horton wrote: A lowercase 'L' looks a lot like a number '1' so it is difficult to tell if the config file name should be 'menu dot list' or 'menu dot first'. Use a better font. If you cannot distinguish l from 1, you should have

Re: Name of config file looks ambiguous to GRUB newbies

2004-03-25 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:36:01PM -0600, David Horton wrote: I have one minor suggestion for improvement. I think it would be a good idea to change the name of the default configuration file to something other than menu.lst. The current GRUB (version 0.9x) is in maintaince mode. There

Re: Name of config file looks ambiguous to GRUB newbies

2004-03-25 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:11:07PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: I'm a zealot. To me the correct one would be ./etc/grub.conf And everyone with a Unix-brain will understand. And everyone with a brain will understand that if /etc is on a partition not accessible by grub and /boot is a seperate

Re: Name of config file looks ambiguous to GRUB newbies

2004-03-25 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 03:47:15PM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:46:48PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:11:07PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: I'm a zealot. To me the correct one would be ./etc/grub.conf And everyone with a Unix-brain

Re: Name of config file looks ambiguous to GRUB newbies

2004-03-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:46:48PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:11:07PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: I'm a zealot. To me the correct one would be ./etc/grub.conf And everyone with a Unix-brain will understand. And everyone with a brain will understand that if

Re: Name of config file looks ambiguous to GRUB newbies

2004-03-25 Thread David Horton
-Original Message- From: Jeroen Dekkers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 03:10 PM To: 'Yedidyah Bar-David' Cc: 'Uwe Dippel', [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Name of config file looks ambiguous to GRUB newbies On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 03:47

Re: Name of config file looks ambiguous to GRUB newbies

2004-03-24 Thread Uwe Dippel
David Horton Add to Address Book wrote: I have one minor suggestion for improvement. I think it would be a good idea to change the name of the default configuration file to something other than menu.lst. You're right. I came from RedHat to Debian and found a new world. (RedHat does call it

Re: Name of config file looks ambiguous to GRUB newbies

2004-03-24 Thread cr
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 01:11, Uwe Dippel wrote: David Horton Add to Address Book wrote: I have one minor suggestion for improvement. I think it would be a good idea to change the name of the default configuration file to something other than menu.lst. You're right. I came from RedHat to

Name of config file looks ambiguous to GRUB newbies

2004-03-23 Thread David Horton
Hi, First I would like to say great job on GRUB. I was a die hard LILO fan for many years and I am now a GRUB convert. I have one minor suggestion for improvement. I think it would be a good idea to change the name of the default configuration file to something other than menu.lst. When I