Adam Williamson wrote:
> Then nothing would boot at all.
>
> It turns out this is because the release name of Fedora 19 is:
>
> Schrödinger's Cat
>
> with a single quote used as an apostrophe. That release name gets
> written into the grub entry for a kernel when you're installing it.
> Unfortunately, the lines it goes onto look like this:
>
> menuentry 'Fedora (3.9.0-0.rc2.git0.4.fc20.x86_64) 19 (Schrödinger's
> Cat)' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os
> $menuentry_id_option
> 'gnulinux-simple-a749ca4b-0cea-4db0-883d-5c036d89e5c5' {
>
> and:
>
> echo 'Loading Fedora (3.9.0-0.rc2.git0.4.fc20.x86_64) 19 (Schrödinger's
> Cat)'
>
> note how both lines use single quotes for quoting. The single quote in
> the release name terminates the quotes early, and leaves the rest of the
> stuff that's meant to be inside the single quotes as garbage lying
> around the config file.
http://xkcd.com/327/ ;-)
Kevin Kofler
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