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Re: Re: eCos Grub Problem
- From: Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion dot org dot uk>
- To: Nick Garnett <nickg at ecoscentric dot com>
- Cc: raghavendra pai g <grpai1 at rediffmail dot com>, ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:36:43 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: eCos Grub Problem
- References: <20050809102804.17214.qmail@webmail28.rediffmail.com> <m3hddz89xw.fsf@xl5.calivar.com>
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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