[Novalug] Re: grub (was CentOS/Ubuntu)

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, RogerB wrote:

>>  	Where is it?? Beagle shows me half a dozen hits, of which 
>> the likeliest, /usr/share/doc/grub-0.97/menu.lst, might as 
>> well be in cuneiform Hittite for all I can make of it ...
>
> I don't know for your distro . . . that looks like it may be 
> it. Have you LOOKED at menu.lst? It should entries that are a 
> dead give-away: this is what produces the menu you see when you 
> boot. (Oh: sorry: I don't understand cuneiform - you are on 
> your own with that.)

 	You've probably all seen pictures; it used to be, and may 
well still be, the oldest known form of writing. Made by poking 
funny three-pointed things into wet clay tablets in various ways. 
You know at a glance it has to mean something -- and without an 
advanced degree in some sort of much older philology that I ever 
learned, that's all you know. (I have a doctoral minor in 
Germanic philology, and the Hittites were long gone before the 
Germanic languages ever branched off the stem, or began to be 
recorded even as individual words by Roman writers.)

-- 
Beartooth Paganus, Staffwright, Sciurivore
What do they know of country, who only country know?