argh, grub woes

[Net Llama!]

On 11/25/2004 11:36 AM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> 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> 

>>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.

On Fedora, menu.lst and grub.conf are the same thing.


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