grub2 confusion

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 18:11 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:

>   # grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2.cfg
>   Generating grub.cfg ...
>   ...
>   # ls /etc/grub2.cfg 
>   /etc/grub2.cfg
>   #
> 
> WTF? It didn't _follow_ the symlink, it replaced it with a file.
> The reboot didn't use it, of course, but used the old one in /boot/grub2.
> Useless stuff.
> 
> Notice how it says "Generating grub.cfg ..." when in fact it creates a
> file grub2.cfg. This is extra misleading.

/etc/grub2.cfg is in fact a symlink to /boot/grub2/grub.cfg , so this is
sort of technically correct...
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