On Mon, 29 May 2000, PaHo HoHo wrote:
About GRUB, I don't know exactly if this is the correct solution but if
you go to /boot/grub, you'll found a executable script called something
like install... execute it and Grub will reappear, it worked for me :)
> I'll just list them:
>
> - spelling mistakes in the shared program menus:
> - "Magnyfing glass" in Amusements|Toys should be "Magnifying Glass"
> - "Backgroung" in Gnome|Settings|Desktop should be "Background"
>
> - several broken links in the shared program menus, such as "DOS Emulator"
> in Applications|Emulators; it seems as if some programs haven't even been
> installed, yet they are in the menus
>
> - the GNOME Theme Selector doesn't work at all. I click it in the GNOME
> Configuration Tool and it just doesn't show anything in the window, save for
> the Try, Revert, OK and Cancel buttons at the bottom. I would really like
> to change my GNOME theme, but there doesn't seem to be any way to do that.
>
> - I was booting with GRUB fine for a while, and I really liked it. Then I
> changed my LILO settings by accident one time in Linuxconf and now it boots
> with LILO every time. I can't get back to booting with GRUB. It's really
> annoying. I have no idea how to get GRUB back. I've checked Linuxconf
> everywhere and DrakConf everywhere, and neither of them say anything about
> GRUB. There should really be a configuration program for it, don't you
> think?
>
> - I can't turn off hard drive optimizations. I turned it on when I
> installed cooker, just to see how it worked, and it doesn't seem to make
> much of a difference, save for a few errors on the console about my IDE
> hardware, so I really want to turn it off. As far as I can see, there's no
> place in DrakConf to turn this off. Any idea where I can disable it?
>
> - It's difficult to figure out where in DrakConf you can change your startup
> runlevel from 3 to 5. I had it set to 3 at first, but then I wanted to
> change it back to 5. I realized after much trouble that by clicking on the
> DrakConf "X Configuration" button, sometimes it asks you the question "do
> you want to start X on boot?" and so I chose yes and it changed the
> runlevel. But this is really not obvious and hard to find.
>
> - In general I find that system administration/configuration is really
> fragmented and disorganized. DrakConf has a bunch of buttons just laid
> about everywhere with no particular order. There are two RPM/packaging
> programs (Kpackage and RPMDrake) that can be launched from DrakConf--why is
> this? This is inconsistent and redundant. There really only should be one
> that can be launched from DrakConf. As well, you have both an "X
> Configuration" button and "Change X Resolution". There should only be one X
> configuring tool! It makes no sense to have two buttons that do similar
> things. It's confusing and silly. As well, some of the other buttons in
> DrakConf are just launchers for parts of the Linuxconf program. Just leave
> Linuxconf there and take the other buttons out. The administrator can go to
> Linuxconf to all this, so why take up additional space in DrakConf if it's
> unnecessary? I just find that there is a lot of redundancy in the program.
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