At 2:30 PM -0700 6/23/05, Thomas Taylor wrote: >On Thursday 23 June 2005 09:10, Alexander Dalloz 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. >> >> Alexander > >Hi Alexander: > >When I do 'ls -ap /boot/grub' it indicates that @menu.lst is the symlink and >grub.conf the original. Am I misinterpreting this? When booting from a /boot partition, the grub menu file needs to be on /boot. Having it reside in /etc wouldn't be much help at boot time. If there is only /, then a symlink to /etc should work at boot time. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
