On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 08:45:25AM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:34:23 +0000 Frank wrote, > > ... update to grub2. ... boot goes nowhere. > > FWIIW, the install-grub2-at-update-of-Squeeze, > test-boot-with-chainloading and upgrade-from-grub-legacy > process was like clockwork on my old IBM NetVista. > > Some of the comments in /boot/grub/grub.cfg are odd. > The second line is "# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE" > whereas the second to last sentence is "Simply type the > # menu entries you want to add after this comment." > > The last sentence is "Be careful not to change > # the 'exec tail' line above." but no "exec" is apparent. > > Regards, ... Peter E.
Those comments are after "BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom", though, which is the source of them. Look at /etc/grub.d/40_custom and you can see how the comments are useful if you're editing that file, but they're misleading when added to grub.cfg. Brian
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