[CoLoCo] Missing SATA hard drive

[Kevin Fries]

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 18:36 -0600, Daniel Galecki wrote:
> I would recommend backing up the original first whenever making
> changes to this file, just in case. Be careful editing it but if you
> ever do mess up your boot setup, you can always resort to the live CD
> to fix things and restoring a backup via the live CD is cake.
> 
> You can edit the bootloader menu by running the following command:
> sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Noooooooooooooo!

Manually editing a system file you do not understand is surely the
quickest way to bricking your computer.  Ubuntu has a simple to use tool
that will make that cleanup simple.

man update-grub


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Kevin Fries
Senior Linux Engineer
Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
A Division of Japan Communications Inc.