Thus spake Les Mikesell: > > The grub.conf that is actually used is /boot/grub/grub.conf. What you > see in /etc is a symlink so you have an easy time finding it to edit. > There are various ways that the symlink can be broken, so make sure you > really have what you expect under /boot/grub. Also, depending on > how your system handles drive failure, you may or may not want the > same thing there. Scsi systems normally move the first working > drive up to /dev/sda (and shift everything else up so non-labeled > partitions may be off). Ide controllers often hang until you remove > the bad drive and then the system doesn't shift the names unless you > move the working drive to the primary partition. > The symlink in /etc was fine, but probably also irrelevant, since /boot is its own partition on my system. I gave it one more go, this time with grub-install, instead of from the shell, and it worked. I thought that grub-install did the same thing as what I tried from the grub shell; I'd even tried grub-install earlier to no effect. Weird. Thanks for the advice about shifting device names. -- J.
