Re: grubby: unable to open /boot/boot.b: No such file or directory

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On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 18:08 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:16:58 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> 
> > watching this thread with interest.
> > 
> > I have several Dell Optiplex 320's that will not boot with grub but will
> > boot with lilo and so I have lilo installed on them.
> 
> Is this problem known upstream?
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very much so
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379201
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219715
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>  
> > Unfortunately though, kernel updates do produce the error above (unable
> > to open /boot/boot.b) generated by grubby. Is there any way around
> > getting grubby to re-run lilo to execute an update when new kernels are
> > installed?
> 
> With LILO, no. LILO must be rewritten with every change in lilo.conf.
> GRUB, on the contrary, must not be rewritten after modifying grub.conf,
> because it can read the ext2/ext3 fs directly to load its config file.
> 
> If you're interested in where grubby is executed, take a look at
> /sbin/new-kernel-pkg which is called by the "kernel" package scriptlets.
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been there...never could figure out what to change
as noted here...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219715#c18

Craig

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