[nzlug] When Grub clobbers other grub.conf files

[Simon Bridge]

On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 08:55 +1300, 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)
> 
This is why you make one a symlink when you want to use just one big
configuration file in multi-boot.