Grub timeout ignored?

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Dec 7 21:47:27 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 19:27 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: 
> On 12/07/2009 04:15 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 00:05 +1100, Roger wrote:
> >> Do you have two disparate grub.conf files?
> >>
> >> I have only ever edited /boot/grub/menu.lst to alter how grub boots.
> >> I do not know if this the correct thing to do but in doing so I 've not
> >> had any problems.
> >> Roger
> >>
> > Actually what you are doing is strange. Why don't you
> > edit /etc/grub.conf (which is really /boot/grub/grub.conf)?
> >
> > menu.lst is symbolic link to grub.conf.
> 
> What's then the difference between editing grub.conf and menu.lst? None!
None, except the real file is grub.conf so editing it under that name
seems a more obvious thing to do and less confusing. How did youu guess
the relationship between the two files?
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