grub can't find config file
Steve Holdoway
steve at greengecko.co.nz
Fri Jun 17 22:21:17 UTC 2005
Edwin Olson wrote:
> I did a clean FC4 install to the second disk (hdb) of my x86 machine.
> hda is Windows. During install, I requested grub be written to hda,
> and upon reboot, grub runs.
>
> But grub can't find its config file, so it dumps me at a command prompt.
>
> I can proceed normally by typing 'configfile /grub/grub.conf'. The
> menu pops up and I can boot both windows or linux just fine.
>
> What can I do to make grub automatically find its config file in this
> most obvious of locations? :) Could there be a bug that I'm tickling,
> since the config file is on hdb instead of hda?
>
> -Ed
>
try /boot/grub/grub.conf. This is where the file resides, not where some
strange ( non standard? ) link is. There's a standard symlink from
/etc/grub.conf, but that's all I know about.
Steve
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