Solved: /boot/grub/menu.lst will not be updated after the latest "yum update"
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Wed Mar 7 18:26:21 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 00:44 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 14:52 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
> > I found out that /boot/grub/grub.conf and /boot/grub/menu.lst were
> > different. The correct boot config was in /boot/grub/menu.lst.
> >
> > After "mv /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/grub.conf;ln
> > -s /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.lst"
> >
> > all trouble disappeared.
>
> They should have been the same file, linked, in the first place. Is
> this on a system that you copied from one drive to another? I've seen
> copying files sometimes get links wrong.
The default behavior of "cp" is to copy the referent of a link as a
file, not as a symlink. Specifying the "-P" option copies symlinks
as symlinks.
>
> --
> (This PC runs FC4, my others FC5 & FC6, in case that's important
> to the thread)
>
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
> I read messages from the public lists.
>
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