Re: BUG ? Feature :-) (was: BUG with grub menus)

2000-07-30 Thread Dave
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: From: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BUG ? Feature :-) (was: BUG with grub menus) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:39:36 -0400 (EDT) I am changing my view on how this problem arose to be a documentation oversight and to ease the use of GRUB

Re: BUG ? Feature :-) (was: BUG with grub menus)

2000-07-27 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BUG ? Feature :-) (was: BUG with grub menus) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:39:36 -0400 (EDT) I am changing my view on how this problem arose to be a documentation oversight and to ease the use of GRUB for linux users who are switching to grub from lilo I

BUG ? Feature :-) (was: BUG with grub menus)

2000-07-26 Thread Khimenko Victor
26-Jul-00 01:33 you wrote: It's not a fatal bug but very annoying. Of course it's not fatal bug, it's not even bug at all if you'll think about it: GRUB knows NOTHING about what's mounted where. And that's good, that's how GRUB was designed and how it should work. So it's feature, not bug.

Re: BUG ? Feature :-) (was: BUG with grub menus)

2000-07-26 Thread Dave
If that's a feature I am going to put my resume in with Microsoft! :) Dave On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote: 26-Jul-00 01:33 you wrote: It's not a fatal bug but very annoying. Of course it's not fatal bug, it's not even bug at all if you'll think about it: GRUB knows

Re: BUG ? Feature :-) (was: BUG with grub menus)

2000-07-26 Thread Khimenko Victor
26-Jul-00 07:48 you wrote: If that's a feature I am going to put my resume in with Microsoft! :) Go full speed. It IS feature. It's VERY simple in fact. GRUB is NOT linux loader. It can load ANY number of different OSes from different partitions. Thus it DOES NOT have ANY knowleadge about

Re: BUG ? Feature :-) (was: BUG with grub menus)

2000-07-26 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
Peter Astrand writes: Excuse me but I did in fact read the documentation. Iwasn't being serious bout the microsoft comment. Please calm down. With an attitude like that no one will use grub. (I am the only person I know who does). PA I agree. Sometimes it seems like people on this

Re: BUG ? Feature :-) (was: BUG with grub menus)

2000-07-26 Thread Dave
That ought to do it!! Thanks. I have to shift my sight from the linux root filesystem implementation to tthe partition I boot from. Dave On 26 Jul 2000, Pixel wrote: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think its great but you need to realize that most grub users are ex-lilo people. I