From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
To: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Guest boot loader support
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:24:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <426EA37E.5070102@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504262048.24728.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Mark Williamson wrote:
>>ok, i see the point.
>>
>>other question: pygrub::get_config(fn) tries to read
>>"/boot/grub/grub.conf". Normally this should be "/boot/grub/menu.lst".
>>I wonder which distro are you working on?
>
> My FC3 box has menu.lst as a symlink to grub.conf. Grub seems to be happy
> with either of these names. Painful experience suggests that if both files
> are present, then "menu.lst" will "win".
GRUB only looks for menu.lst; distros create symlinks because that's a
terrible name for a config file. In other words, no code should be
opening grub.conf...
--
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-26 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-25 22:50 [PATCH] Guest boot loader support Jeremy Katz
2005-04-26 9:32 ` aq
2005-04-26 9:54 ` aq
2005-04-26 17:01 ` Jeremy Katz
2005-04-26 19:37 ` aq
2005-04-26 19:48 ` Mark Williamson
2005-04-26 20:24 ` Hollis Blanchard [this message]
2005-04-26 20:47 ` Mark Williamson
2005-04-26 21:02 ` aq
2005-04-27 0:30 ` Mark Williamson
2005-04-27 3:14 ` aq
2005-04-29 3:06 ` Jeremy Katz
2005-04-26 20:49 ` aq
2005-04-26 19:58 ` aq
2005-04-26 20:11 ` Jacob Gorm Hansen
2005-04-26 20:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2005-04-26 20:39 ` Jacob Gorm Hansen
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