Choosing kernel automatically at Boot - Beginner -

[James McKenzie]

Patrick:

You should modify only the original file, not the symlinked file.  I 
found that I could not edit a soft linked file on one occassion and that 
I could edit the original file.  Thus I edit only /boot/grub/grub.conf.

James McKenzie

Patrick Boutilier wrote:

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> Satish Balay wrote:
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>> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
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>>> joshua neff wrote:
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>>>> I open the terminal, logged in as root, typed "chmod
>>>> +w /etc/grub.conf" and it still gives me a permission
>>>>
>>>
>>> HOW did you login as root?  Root should not have any problem with 
>>> permissions
>>> for chmod of any local file
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>> Also, the file should be: /boot/grub/grub.conf (its not in /etc)
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> No, but /etc/grub.conf is a link to /boot/grub/grub.conf in a normal 
> Fedora installation.
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>> Satish
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