grub very strange problems

Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras at gmail.com
Thu Jun 23 22:09:06 UTC 2005


On 6/23/05, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> Am Do, den 23.06.2005 schrieb Kam Leo um 23:48:
> > On my system  /boot/grub/menu.list  is a symbolic link to
> > /boot/grub/grub/conf  and /etc/grub.conf  is symbolically linked to
> > /boot/grub/grub.conf .  Did the OP at some point delete the original
> > grub.conf in /boot/grub?
> 
> O, I was wrong. So /boot/grub/grub.conf is the real file with the
> configuration content. Time for consulting the grub documentation.
> 
> $ ls -ll /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/grub.conf /etc/grub.conf
> -rw-------  1 root root 884 24. Mai 00:38 /boot/grub/grub.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  11 30. Mai 2004  /boot/grub/menu.lst ->
> ./grub.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  22 30. Mai 2004  /etc/grub.conf ->
> ../boot/grub/grub.conf

I think it varies... when I first installed Fedora it booted fine...
which probably means that the /etc/grub.conf file was the real one
(maybe a copy of another real file). But then when I booted (I did yum
update and stuff) it failed, so probably it became a symlink.

-- 
Felipe Contreras




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