grub very strange problems

Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras at gmail.com
Thu Jun 23 16:22:40 UTC 2005


On 6/23/05, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> 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.

grub uses /boot/grub/menu.lst by _default_, but I guess Fedora in it's
scripts, maybe grub-install, points it to use /etc/grub.conf.

-- 
Felipe Contreras




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