On 6/23/05, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Do, den 23.06.2005 schrieb Felipe Contreras um 17:29: > > > On 6/21/05, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> 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
