grub oddity

[Nigel Wade]

jack wallen wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 14:02 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> 
>>Symlink points to the wrong place - it should be:
>>
>>$ ls -l /etc/grub.conf
>>lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 22 May 20  2004 /etc/grub.conf -> 
>>../boot/grub/grub.conf
>>
> 
> 
> my mistake. i meant to type /boot/grub - which does not exist on this
> machine (after running up2date).
> 
> 
>>>3) /etc/grub/grub.conf does not exist
>>>4) /etc/grub/ does not exist
>>>
>>>has something gone wrong? how can grub be configured if there are no
>>>configuration files or directories existing for it?
>>>
>>>thanks for any help.
>>
>>Not sure how your system got into this state, but the files should be in 
>>/boot/grub, not /etc/grub.
>>
>>Paul.
>>
>>

grub must exist somewhere on the filesystem or grub couldn't boot the 
system. It has to read grub.conf and (possibly stage1_5 and) stage2 binaries 
from somewhere.

Maybe you have a /boot partition which just isn't mounted?


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