argh, grub woes

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday 25 November 2004 02:18 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 14:13:30 -0500, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> 
wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 November 2004 02:06 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> > > On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:47:31 -0500, dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:
> > > > quoth Net Llama!:
> > > > | > Could it be looking for grub.conf?
> > > > |
> > > > | maybe, but i can't see why.  it exists in /boot/grub/ (which points
> > > > | to /etc/grub.conf)
> > > >
> > > > is /etc on the same partition?
> > >
> > > That's where I was going. I've never seen a setup where everything
> > > grub needs is not in /boot/grub (regardless or not whether /boot is a
> > > separate partition. I presume from what you said earlier that
> > > /boot/grub.conf is a symlink to /etc/grub.conf. This must be something
> > > of a Redhatism. I would eliminate the symlink and copy /etc/grub.conf
> > > to /boot/grub.conf. That's the only "sane" setup that I'm aware of.
> >
> > As far as I am aware.....  grub.conf is only used for install..... 
> > nothing else.
>
> I disagree. grub.conf and/or menu.lst in the older grub must be
> available at boot time to build the menu list of bootable systems.
> That's why you don't have to run grub after modifying the conf as is
> the case with lilo. At install time, grub stores its own pointer to
> the "root" you have specified so that it can find the conf when you
> boot.

And I'll raise your disagree.....    I have always had a /etc/grub.conf  (even 
in the last Caldera release I think) and it was all about install and nothing 
about actually booting.  On SuSE it is still in /etc/grub/conf and does not 
need to be present for boot.

If you are saying that if I rename it, I can't boot, I'll bet a 6-pack of your 
favorite beer on it....

Yes, there does need to be a menu.lst.


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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         11/25/04 14:34  +
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