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Re: Re: eCos Grub Problem


On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:24 +0100, Nick Garnett wrote:

> My understanding of GRUB is that it uses a menu.lst file in /boot/grub
> to supply the boot options. That is certainly what my SuSE
> installation does. I'm not sure what role /etc/grub.conf plays, but it
> is not the right place to put new boot options.

On all the systems I've seen which use grub (primarily Debian systems)
menu.lst is a symlink to grub.conf. I don't know for sure which one grub
actually looks for (the manpage suggests menu.lst) but if you modify the
other one and they aren't linked you'll run into trouble...

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Ian Campbell

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	There is not now, and never will be, a language in
	which it is the least bit difficult to write bad programs.


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