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gr8fuljames
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 Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 5:34 am Post subject: grub.conf missing [solved] |
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O.K. this is weird I was looking at another post today and tried to take a look at my grub.conf. To my surprize when I was attempting this I could not find it. Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't it be "/boot/grub/grub.conf" After trying to view it with nano -l /boot/grub/grub.conf it brought me back to prompt. I guessed I typed something wrong so this time I did
nano -l /boot/g (then tab) which gave nothing so I deleted the g and got boot and kernel as my two choices ok did another b (then tab) which gave me nano -l /boot/boot/g guess what nothing again delete g tab tab and get boot and kernel again.
My system does boot as far as I know I rebooted just the other day and everything was fine so where is my grub.conf and what are all these "boot" and "kernel"
This may seem confusing I know I'm confused this is copied right from the terminal which this happened...
the last line is where I kept hitting b then tab until it gave up.
| Code: | mybox ~ # nano -l /boot/grub/grub.conf
mybox ~ # nano -l /boot/boot/
boot/ kernel
mybox ~ # nano -l /boot/boot/boot/
boot/ kernel
mybox ~ # nano -l /boot/boot/boot/boot/
boot/ kernel
mybox ~ # nano -l /boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/
boot/ kernel
mybox ~ # nano -l /boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot
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js-x.com
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 6:06 am Post subject: |
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2 possible issues...
1) you might not have the /boot partition actually mounted.
# df
this will show you the volumes mounted.
For me - I see a line with this:
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/dev/hdc1 69972 10079 56280 16% /boot
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2) the file might be deleted. the file is only used to set up the master boot record. when you do the grub-install command it will take the information from the grub.conf file and use it to write the master boot record.
if this is the case, just re-create and go from there with a new grub install
IMHO:
If its working - you might not want to mess with it.
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Kaste
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 9:26 am Post subject: |
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The boot phenomenon is easily explained. boot is just a symlink to '.' , i.e. the current directory. This is a compatability thing so there is no difference between having a separate boot disk or making it a plain folder under the root file system.
I'd also second the idea that it is not mounted. df is a way to see it, mount is another. If it's not there look into /etc/fstab and see if there is an entry for it. Most likely it has noauto set after it which means you can mount it manually with mount /boot but it is not done automatically at boot.
Executing ls /boot/ -la could be enlightening as well btw.
@js-x.com I seriously doubt no 2) I'm fairly sure grub reads those in every time you start it. I never do grub-install and i change the menu.lst = grub.conf a lot.
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gr8fuljames
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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OK ignore the crazy man behind the keyboard. I'm feeling really stupid now it wasn't mounted.
I just kinda freaked out there when I couldn't see it...
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