[nzlug] When Grub clobbers other grub.conf files

[Patrick Connolly]

Somewhere about Tue, 18-Dec-2007 at 10:05AM +1300 (give or take),
Paolo Edgerton Bachmann wrote:

|> When GRUB clobbers it's own files rewrite them. Grubs not exactly the
|> hardest booter to manually add or remove entries. I wouldn't bother
|> getting to into the whole script based side just add the entries to
|> menu.lst and reboot.

The menu.lst file is simple enough, but it's the files it refers to
that cause me concern.  When grub is set up, it seems to create a
dozen or so files and I've only a vague idea what they do let alone
know how anyone could recreate them.

In the end, when I reinstalled and set up grub not in the MBR, it was
simple to get the menu.lst information to add to the one that the MBR
did use.  Simple enough but tedious going through the media check
(still no idea why it won't continue unless it did that first) then
selecting all the stuff I wanted to install again: not to mention the
number of times it would stick on the /sbin/loader stage.

I'm convinced now that there's something wrong with the DVD but the
media check's methodology doesn't detect it.  I've gone through the
installation process three times now, and there's something different
missing each time.  (Since the last time, there's no way to log out of
KDE just using the mouse: I had to run reboot from a root terminal).
Other Fedoras I've tried never had such problems.

I'd be interested to know of anyone who's had experience with the
Fedora 8 DVD.



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