GRUB Question

[John Summerfield]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 17:00 -0500, John Pierce wrote:
>>>     Well first read man grub or info grub on your F7 working computer.
>> I did, and I am able to boot the installed kernel
>>
>>> Learn how to write a section on your existing grub.conf in /boot/grub/
>>> that will boot your F8. It is like the ones you have now but with
>>> different root and boot. You can get the right stuff from the F8 grub.conf.
>>>
>> I did not see anything that would just boot the grub from sdb, I would
>> prefer to do this so that when mandriva updates it's kernel I do not
>> have to manually edit the grub of my fedora installation.
>>
> Well you raise an interesting question. Let me go out on a limb. If the
> grub.conf that is active is really on sda, but the /etc/grub.conf on sdb
> is really a soft link to the /boot/grub.conf on sda, I can't see why an
> update of the kernel when you are running the operating system on sdb
> would n not correctly update grub.conf.

Despite RH, the correct name (as defined by grub's author) for grub's 
menu is menu.lst, and it's generally found at /boot/grub/menu.lst - even 
on RH systems.

menu.lst isn't really shareable between different installations of 
Linux, and while it might work sometimes, the results ar unreliable: 
just imagine RHEL5 WS and RHEL Server sharing /boot.

Note that /etc/grub.conf is a symlink to the real menu and the real menu 
is usually on another filesystem.



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