Re: Problems with grub2/initramfs-tools in chroot
On 22/11/14 19:50, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> 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
>
>
:)
Here (Australia), tick is also a blood-sucking insect and a term for "on
credit". Those that have demonstrated bad credit[*1] are added to the
Cash Up No Tick list. ;p
[*1] a cheque is just promise, not worth the paper it's written on.
</colloquial banter>
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Kind regards
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