[CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

[Bowie Bailey]

m.roth at 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?

-- 
Bowie