argh, grub woes

[Bruce Marshall]

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.


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