Tim: >> 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? Paul Smith: > Thanks, Tim. In my case, > > # ll /boot/grub/ > total 208 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60 2007-10-22 22:26 device.map > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60 2007-10-22 22:26 device.map.backup > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7616 2007-10-23 01:16 e2fs_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7456 2007-10-23 01:16 fat_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6720 2007-10-23 01:16 ffs_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6720 2007-10-23 01:16 iso9660_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 2007-10-23 01:16 jfs_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6880 2007-10-23 01:16 minix_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9248 2007-10-23 01:16 reiserfs_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 2007-10-23 01:16 stage1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104924 2007-10-23 01:16 stage2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7040 2007-10-23 01:16 ufs2_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6272 2007-10-23 01:16 vstafs_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8864 2007-10-23 01:16 xfs_stage1_5 > # > > There is *no* menu.lst. However, menu.lst is in > /dev/sda2/boot/grub/grub.conf. My /etc/fstab is: > > # more /etc/fstab > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 I didn't know you could have swap on a volume group. And, further back in the thread, you had a kernel line that indicated that same volume group was your system root (/): kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.7-85.fc7 ro root=/dev/VolGroup/LogVol01 > /dev/sdc1 /mnt/montaria ext3 defaults 0 0 > # dir -l /etc/grub.conf > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2007-10-21 10:56 /etc/grub.conf -> ../boot/grub/grub.conf > > Any ideas? What do you see for "less /etc/grub.conf"? I can't see from that list output whether the link points to a file, or points to a non-existent file. I'm beginning to wonder if you've got two boot partitions, and you're working on one that's mounted, but different than the one the system is booting from. Put a menu.lst file into your /boot, make a symlink to it called grub.conf. -- [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.
