Re: Problems with grub2/initramfs-tools in chroot

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 22 November 2014 00:47:00 Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 22/11/14 09:59, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Friday 21 November 2014 22:43:11 Ross Boylan wrote:
> >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Scott Ferguson
> >>
> >> <scott.ferguson.debian.user@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On 21/11/14 15:13, Ross Boylan wrote:
> >>>> Over the last week I've repeatedly found my machine unbootable, in the
> >>>> sense I couldn't get to a working system without intervention.
> >>>> Sometimes I couldn't even get the grub2 menu.
> >>>
> >>> Tick
> >>
> >> I don't understand what you mean by tick.
> >
> > You Americans!  It's lucky that we English can talk American.  Tick is
> > the English for check.
> >
> >> [snip]
>
> <snipped>
>
> Correct Lisi, thanks for your "worldly-awareness". If I'd written
> "check" the larger part of the world might interpret that as an
> instruction. My apologies to Ross for the confusion.

I once had an email from an American with a sentence with the word check in it 
3 times.  He meant cheque, tick - and check.  But it did take me a moment or 
two to work out.

Lisi