On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:43:53 +1100 The Wassermans <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 11:19 +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: > > > > What does it mean? > > > > Isn't that fairly obvious? :) Your copy of grubs menu.lst has been > > changed, and its been changed by something other then the packaging > > system. > > I guess so, but I still struggle a bit with some of the jargon. I'm > still very nervous about trashing the system by being too hasty. Thats understandable. I have a SPARC system running on my network, which uses Silo (based on Lilo). I think I've forgotten to run the silo update after changing its kernel twice now, with the result of not booting. > > Anyway, what with your gentle push in my back, I accepted the "install > the package maintainer's version". And Bingo! It fixed the problem. Great to hear! Its odd that you wound up with this problem, as grub handles updates to the file (I've never had to manually run grub-update unless recovering a broken system). > > Thank you Karl and Karl. Thank you Paul and Dave. Thank you Andre > too. > > So completes yet another 2 minute tweak that took me several hours > accomplish. aye, but next time you'll know what to do (and you'll probably be braver about exploring the options). kk > > Dave W > -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian user / gNewSense contributor http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
