grub very strange problems

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 23.06.2005 schrieb Felipe Contreras um 17:29:

> On 6/21/05, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The problem I'm having right now is that grub starts in the shell, as
> > if no grub.conf existed... but there it is... and it seems to be ok.
> 
> I'm going to answer myself here. Since no one in #fedora nor
> fedora-list answered or cared to suggest anything; I tried
> #lfs-support, and thanks to jbit I found what the problem was.
> 
> For some reason grub is not following symlinks on ReiserFS, I don't
> know if it's a problem specific with the grub compiled in Fedora but
> making /etc/grub.conf a normal file it worked fine.

> Felipe Contreras

I wonder a bit as I always thought /etc/grub.conf exists only for
convenience - better to be recognized as conf(iguration) file for grub.
And that the real configuration used by grub is only
/boot/grub/menu.lst, to which /etc/grub.conf on Fedora by default is a
symlink.

Alexander
 

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