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Re: Where's the grub boot menu?



Jacob,

Is it possible that GRUB is looking for "/boot/boot/grub/menu.lst",
instead of "/boot/grub/menu.lst"?  The "README" makes reference to
this when "/boot" is a separate partition.

When you ran "grub-install", did it not create a "/boot/boot/grub"
directory with a "menu.lst" template in there?  If so, GRUB is
probably using that one instead of the one you've been modifying.  The
"update-grub" script, unfortunately, only updates the first of
"/boot/grub" and "/boot/boot/grub" that it finds, so it won't have
touched the version that GRUB is using, if this is the case.

The only difference I see between our "menu.lst" files is that my Xen
boot stanzas have no "root" line in mine:

title       Xen 3.0 running 2.6.16.2-xen-amd64-k8
kernel      /xen-3.0-amd64.gz dom0_mem=262144
module      /vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-xen-amd64-k8 root=/dev/mapper/main-buddharoot ro console=tty0
module      /initrd.img-2.6.16-2-xen-amd64-k8
savedefault
boot

However, I doubt your problem has anything to do with problems in the
"menu.lst"---it seems pretty clear that GRUB is just failing to find
the file entirely or using a different copy.

-- 
Kevin Buhr <buhr+debian@asaurus.net>



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