In <20090731124204.gw7...@keuner.winnegan.fake>, Siggy Brentrup wrote: >On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 16:48 +0800, Timothy Wu wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:53 PM, frank <fr...@anotheria.net> wrote: >> > Check out the menu.lst file. >> >> Whoa! I didn't know text hidden in those comments are actually in-use.
They aren't really comments. Reading the file would have clarified that. >ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGs, that's the 1st program I saw in >35 year of >programming that analyzes comments to change behaviour (apart from >documentation generators). 1. It is well documented. Basically everything you need to know is in the file and there are additional man pages. 2. The lines starting this a single '#' are comments to *grub*. The lines between the markers starting with a single '#' are not comments *update- grub*. 3. Lines starting with a single '#' are comments in C *unless* the '#' is immediately followed by a pre-processor command. This is similar -- you can think of update-grub as a GRUB menu.lst pre-processor. 4. It's been that way for a very long time. I'm not sure how GRUB2 will affect it, but I don't think it will change for GRUB1 for the foreseeable future. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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