On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:05:50PM -0400, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
> > another curious thing I just noticed is this: the list of kernels
> > available at boot time (in the actual grub menu shown at boot) IS NOT
> > THE SAME LIST THAT APPEARS IN GRUB.CONF. in the boot-time menu, the
> > kernel it boots is the most recent one shown, and there are other
> > older ones that do not appear in grub.conf. while in grub.conf there
> > are several newer ones that do not appear on the boot-time grub menu.
>
> Has Grub been installed from another partition, in which it's looking
> for the grub.conf file?
don't think so, doesn't look like it:
ls -l `locate grub.conf`
-rw------- 1 root root 2404 Aug 30 21:39 /boot/grub/grub.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jul 24 2009 /etc/grub.conf -> ../boot/grub/grub.conf
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