[nzlug] When Grub clobbers other grub.conf files

[Cliff Pratt]

Simon Green wrote:
> 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)
> 
?? I thought that the one was a link to the other  ??

Cheers,

Cliff