On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 01:45 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > However, I still get the grub prompt when booting. This is a bit > annoying, as, in order to have it completing the boot, I have to run > the command > > configfile (hd0)/grub/grub.conf. I've never encountered that. What's in your /boot/grub? [tim@bigblack ~]$ ll /boot/grub/ total 226 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63 2007-06-22 16:12 device.map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7616 2007-06-22 16:12 e2fs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7456 2007-06-22 16:12 fat_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6720 2007-06-22 16:12 ffs_stage1_5 -rw------- 1 root root 1969 2007-10-19 12:45 grub.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6720 2007-06-22 16:12 iso9660_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 2007-06-22 16:12 jfs_stage1_5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2007-06-22 16:12 menu.lst -> ./grub.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6880 2007-06-22 16:12 minix_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9248 2007-06-22 16:12 reiserfs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22647 2007-04-23 13:59 splash.xpm.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 2007-06-22 16:12 stage1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104924 2007-08-05 14:46 stage2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7040 2007-06-22 16:12 ufs2_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6272 2007-06-22 16:12 vstafs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8864 2007-06-22 16:12 xfs_stage1_5 GRUB actually uses a configuration file called menu.lst, the grub.conf file that we're used to playing with is a symlink to it. Perhaps you don't have the link? -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
