SimplyMEPIS distro

[Collins Richey]

They have to continue to allow menu.lst. If you put grub on a dos
formatted floppy, grub.conf is not a legitimate file name.

On 5/28/05, Mike Reinehr <cmr at amsent.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 28 May 2005 02:02 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> > On 5/28/05, Mike Reinehr <cmr at amsent.com> wrote:
> > > On Friday 27 May 2005 08:43 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> > > > As for Ubuntu, they've (maybe it's simply
> > > > Debian?) managed to make a simple grub.conf complex and difficult to
> > > > understand!
> > >
> > > It must be Ubuntu. I'm using regular Debian Sarge & GRUB. When I
> install
> > > GRUB or run update-grub (a Debian supplied shell script) it
> > > creates/updates a straight forward /boot/grub/menu.lst file. (For what
> > > it's worth, I never could get GRUB to recognize the grub.conf file.)
> >
> > Must be some Debian weirdity. I've used only grub.conf on Gentoo for
> years.
> 
> 	I know. IIRC even the GRUB documentation says that grub.conf is the
> standard, 
> but that menu.list also will work. Oh well, ... :-)
> 
> cmr
> 
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