On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Bowie Bailey Bowie_Bailey@buc.com wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Thanks, all, and with the help of the other admin, the system is up. What I had to do was linux rescue, the chroot /mnt/sysimage, grub-install /dev/sda
What I didn't get until later was it also needed /boot/grub/grub.conf, and then ln -s /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.lst ln -s /boot/grub/grub.conf /etc/grub.conf
I did not create either of those links on my system and it booted just fine. I wonder what they are used for?
IIRC, /boot/grub/menu.lst is a legacy from earlier times when grub needed that one to boot. Sometime in the last three years or so, grub was changed to use a single uniform format file, so the menu.lst became a symlink to the actual grub.conf file.
I believe that /etc/grub.conf is just a convenience to match most other config files that live in /etc.
mhr