Re: [gentoo-user] booting to grub prompt, but config works

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Friday 09 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> 
wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 May 2008 21:50:09 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> >> Check for /boot/grub/menu.lst, this is an alternate (and maybe
> >> empty) config file which grub seems to prefer over grub.conf.
> >
> > menu.lst has been the preferred config file for some years, it seem
> > that GRUB is a little more strict about this nowadays.
>
> I tried to read the ebuild but failed.

For reference:

It's this bit from the ebuild:

setup_boot_dir() {
        local boot_dir=$1
        local dir=${boot_dir}

        [[ ! -e ${dir} ]] && die "${dir} does not exist!"
        [[ ! -L ${dir}/boot ]] && ln -s . "${dir}/boot"
        dir="${dir}/grub"
        if [[ ! -e ${dir} ]] ; then
                mkdir "${dir}" || die "${dir} does not exist!"
        fi

        # change menu.lst to grub.conf
        if [[ ! -e ${dir}/grub.conf ]] && [[ -e ${dir}/menu.lst ]] ; 
then
                mv -f "${dir}"/menu.lst "${dir}"/grub.conf
                ewarn
                ewarn "*** IMPORTANT NOTE: menu.lst has been renamed to 
grub.conf"
                ewarn
        fi


it's called essentially this way in post_inst():

setup_boot_dir /boot

what it does is in essence:

1. fail if /boot does not exist
2. create /boot/boot as a link to /boot
3. create /boot/grub
4. if you don't have a grub.conf and do have a menu.lst then rename it 
to grub.conf



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Alan McKinnon
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