Generating a new grub.conf ??

[Todd Denniston]

Bradley Pursley wrote, On 05/07/2008 01:03 PM:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 06:51:45 -0400,
>>   William Case <billlinux at rogers.com> wrote:
>>  
>>> Is it not possible to make a Red Hat utility that just repeats the grub
>>> part of the Anaconda installation process.  Perhaps it could have a gui
>>> frontend in order to make some simple adjustments, but nonetheless a
>>> user/administrator could re-install just the grub part of their system
>>> without having to run the entire Fedora installation.
>>>     
>>
>> You can run grub to reinstall the part that is in the MBR.
>> You use the 'root' command to tell it what partition has the config file
>> and 'setup' to write to the MBR of a particular hard drive. (If you are
>> using software raid 1, you want to do this manually as the install only
>> writes the MBR of one drive.)
>> Otherwise the grub.conf file is plain text and you can use your favorite
>> text editor to edit it.
> If I understood the question properly, I believe it was how do you 
> install / configure grub (for dual booting was the specific question) 
> with no previous grub.conf file and no knowledge or experience with 
> grub. The question was not how to re-install grub. I am also awaiting 
> the answer to this question because I also had this problem and had to 
> totally re-install Fedora just because the grub.conf file got hosed and, 
> as of yet, no one has answered this question.
> 
> Bradley
> 

A workaround (which I almost always do) is immediately after install:
cd /boot/grub
mkdir RCS
ci -d -l -t-FromFedora -m "FromFedora" grub.conf

of course you do install the rcs package on all your systems don't you?
I mean no good admin would change their system configuration with out version 
control/tracking right? :)

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