On Saturday 20 October 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> > > ... At first look at what it takes in the file /grub/grub.conf to >> > > boot a Linux system. >> > >> > quite simply, there is no file named "/grub/grub.conf". >> >> That's where grub will find it, assuming /boot is a separate >> partition from the OS perspective since grub does not have access to >> anything else during the boot process. And the place you think the >> grub.conf file lives is really a symlink. > >*sigh*. i'm aware of all that -- i was simply pointing out that, not >two paragraphs into his allegedly new-and-improved GRUB tutorial, karl >referred his readers explicitly to a file that simply does not exist, >with no caveat about how this relates to /boot or separate partitions >or anything else that would explain why, if the reader went looking >for that file, they'd never find it. > For FC6 at any rate, it does exist. From an ls -l /boot/grub: -rw------- 1 root root 2781 Oct 20 12:57 grub.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov 9 2006 menu.lst -> ./grub.conf And in /etc: [root@coyote audit]# ls -l /etc/grub.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 9 2006 /etc/grub.conf -> ../boot/grub/grub.conf That's not saying it hasn't been moved in later releases, but that's how it is for FC6. >and, at this point, i think i'll just go back to spectating and being >amused. trying to educate karl is sort of like, well, like this: > >http://amybrennan.blogs.com/Ginger.jpg > >rday >-- >======================================================================== >Robert P. J. Day >Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry >Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > >http://crashcourse.ca >======================================================================== -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
