Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: SimplyMEPIS distro

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Friday 27 May 2005 09:43 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> BTW? As for Ubuntu, they've (maybe it's simply
> Debian?) managed to make a simple grub.conf complex and difficult to
> understand!

I've found it makes quite a bit of sense once I looked at it.  It does a few 
things between the markers quite explicitly, which is similar to what other 
distros do.  Those that do not, have a hard time keeping track of new kernels 
when automated updates occur.

Gentoo does not do this, since they make *you* create the grub.conf file 
(which is called menu.lst on every other distro I've used).  Kernel updates 
are on your shoulders to commit to grub.conf.

Ubuntu uses a script called "update-grub" which is called after new kernels 
are installed (and probably other events as well).  This can also be used for 
your own purposes.

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