Issue with nano editing grub.conf though commandline

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October 12th, 2010, 06:26 AM

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Issue with nano editing grub.conf though commandline

Hi all,

I have to edit the grub.conf as there was a issue in running in virtual box, so i went to edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file ( centos )
and run

Code:

nano /boot/grub/grub.conf

though the commandline and edited the bit i needed save it and rebooted and it coming up

Code:

error 11: unrecognized device string

so luckly i backed up the grub.conf and reloaded that and it was back to normal . I tried this a few times just in case i did something wrong and everytime i do this the same result happens. So instead of running it though commandline i used

Code:

gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf

gedit pops up and i edit it and there no error even though it was the same tags i enter though nano

Any ideas what the problem could be? white spaces or something maybe?

Many thanks

Last edited by amd64 : October 12th, 2010 at 06:59 AM.

October 12th, 2010, 12:47 PM

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Anyone??

October 13th, 2010, 11:03 AM

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It'd be worth running a "diff" on the two versions of the file: the one edited with nano and the one edited with gedit. That may shed some light on it.

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October 13th, 2010, 04:48 PM

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Thanks for that , i'll give it a go

October 14th, 2010, 02:19 PM

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Also as a guess, maybe there is some setting that is putting Microsoft-style line breaks in your edited file. But I'm not a nano user.

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Issue with nano editing grub.conf though commandline

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