grubby: unable to open /boot/boot.b: No such file or directory

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:16:58 -0700, Craig White wrote:

> watching this thread with interest.
> 
> I have several Dell Optiplex 320's that will not boot with grub but will
> boot with lilo and so I have lilo installed on them.

Is this problem known upstream?
 
> Unfortunately though, kernel updates do produce the error above (unable
> to open /boot/boot.b) generated by grubby. Is there any way around
> getting grubby to re-run lilo to execute an update when new kernels are
> installed?

With LILO, no. LILO must be rewritten with every change in lilo.conf.
GRUB, on the contrary, must not be rewritten after modifying grub.conf,
because it can read the ext2/ext3 fs directly to load its config file.

If you're interested in where grubby is executed, take a look at
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg which is called by the "kernel" package scriptlets.