[nzlug] When Grub clobbers other grub.conf files

Simon Green simon at simongreen.net
Fri Dec 14 08:55:33 NZDT 2007


On 14/12/2007, Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com> wrote:
> Have you tried 'update-grub'? This looks at all disks and all /boot
> partitions and builds a menu.lst file from what it finds. It's always
> worked well for me.

Big gotcha here (speaking for experience with RHN support) Debian
based systems use menu.lst to decide what kernel to boot. Redhat based
systems use grub.conf to decide which kernel to boot with (yet RHEL5
still has a menu.lst file)

  -- simon



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