Bug 87614

Summary:	wrong comment character recommended for grub.conf
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo <carenas>
Component:	rhl-ig-x86	Assignee:	Sandra Moore <smoore>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Sandra Moore <smoore>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	adstrong
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OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/s1-trouble-after.html
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Description Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo 2003-03-30 18:26:37 UTC

Description of problem:

on the manual the solution if having trouble with the GRUB boot screen wrongly 
recomends using ";" to comment the splash line

grub.conf uses the "#" character to indicate a line is a comment, as published 
on the info node "Device map"

 "You can put any comments in the file if needed, as the grub shell assumes
  that a line is just a comment if the first character is `#'"

Additional info:

this same mistake can be found on the manuals since 7.2 and could be probably 
on 9

Comment 1 Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo 2003-03-30 18:30:33 UTC

this problem also affect the "enterprise" products (AS 2.1, WS 2.1 and so on) 
and the corresponding documentation

Comment 2 Sandra Moore 2003-04-24 19:55:23 UTC

Thanks very much for the feedback. This correction will appear in future
versions of the documentation.

Cheers!