[augeas-devel] [Fwd: [Puppet Users] Re: Augeas and grub.conf]

[Matthew Palmer]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 02:02:07AM +0100, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> David Lutterkort wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 15:28 +0100, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> >   
> >> In addition, it baffles me a bit as to why the default location for grub.conf is
> >> /etc/grub.conf when, on Redhat based distros, it is always in /boot/grub/grub.conf
> >> with a symlink from /etc pointing to it. I think the standard RH installs always
> >> make /boot a separate partition so this lens will never work.
> >>     
> >
> > IIRC, on Debian it points somewhere else, so we'd need some variation
> > between RH and Debian. But if there's something that works for either,
> > and avoids the cross-device symlink I'd like to change the stock lens.
> >
> >   
> I just dug out my old Debian 3.1 DVD and did a minimal install in a VM.
> I have no /etc/grub.conf at all and the file is actually in
> /boot/grub/menu.lst with no /boot/grub/grub.conf at all. It's ancient
> and using Grub 0.95 but I can't find my Debian 4.0 install disks. If the
> location and file name are the same on later versions then the current
> grub.aug file is not right at present for that either.

A new 5.0 (Lenny) install I have here only has /boot/grub/menu.lst, not
/boot/grub/grub.conf or anything matching /etc/gru*.

- Matt