Comments on Working With The GRUB Menu

This howto describes the path to the grub configuration file as:

"/boot/grub/menu.lst"

 In other distros (CentOS 5 in my case) the filename may be different:

"/boot/grub/grub.conf" 

The way you have Explained it is Clear and Simple!

Great work Cargoship..

What I could really use however is some sort of tutorial on how to migrate an existing installation from LILO to GRUB (safely!).  Until I find such a thing, I'll stick with LILO.

Grub has as far as I know nothing to do with DOS. Why not just call it a "text menu"?

most people in the know use the term DOS to refer to any command line OS (where the specific OS is not germain to the point being made)  not just MS-DOS. We knew what he meant.

The term DOS menu used here is for a non graphical menu i.e it looks a lot like the menus seen in the old days before GUIs.

Exactly, this has absolutely nothing to do with DOS and it's a complete nonsense to call it that way.

Thanks for the article though, helped me because I couldn't remember the name of the menu file

This needs lots of cleanup.  E.g.:

Scroll down into you stop seeing them.    ? ? 

That tells the file to skip over these lines  ? ?   file reading itself ?  ?

Anyway - I wanted dto know where this thing is stored, how the boot up finds this, and how to use it in win.

This tells me the obvious, but nothing more.

If you actually were following what it said, the article would make much more sense, im totally new at this, but somehow (thanks to this great article) now understand grub.

Ubuntu 8.04 Jaunty

This tutor is for grub 1.Not current for grub 2 the current one in use by the majority.