grub oddity

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Apr 13 13:02:41 UTC 2005


jack wallen wrote:
> after updating FC3 with up2date i've noticed there are:
> 
> 1) three kernels on my machine

Normal.

> 2) grub.con is a symlink to /etc/grub/grub.conf

Symlink points to the wrong place - it should be:

$ ls -l /etc/grub.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 22 May 20  2004 /etc/grub.conf -> 
../boot/grub/grub.conf

> 3) /etc/grub/grub.conf does not exist
> 4) /etc/grub/ does not exist
> 
> has something gone wrong? how can grub be configured if there are no
> configuration files or directories existing for it?
> 
> thanks for any help.

Not sure how your system got into this state, but the files should be in 
/boot/grub, not /etc/grub.

Paul.




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