From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29773 invoked by alias); 9 Aug 2005 14:37:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Received: (qmail 29716 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Aug 2005 14:36:58 -0000 Received: from mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (HELO mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com) (81.103.221.48) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:36:58 +0000 Received: from aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050809143655.PFJV23002.mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 15:36:55 +0100 Received: from hopkins.hellion.org.uk ([80.1.205.176]) by aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050809143655.IMSF1947.aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@hopkins.hellion.org.uk>; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 15:36:55 +0100 Received: from [192.168.3.3] (helo=[192.168.3.3]) by hopkins.hellion.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1E2VDg-0004Q9-De; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:36:52 +0100 From: Ian Campbell To: Nick Garnett Cc: raghavendra pai g , ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org In-Reply-To: References: <20050809102804.17214.qmail@webmail28.rediffmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:37:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1123598203.13258.2.camel@icampbell-debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.3.3 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ijc@hellion.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 (built Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:44:12 +0100) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on hopkins.hellion.org.uk) Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: eCos Grub Problem X-SW-Source: 2005-08/txt/msg00095.txt.bz2 On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:24 +0100, Nick Garnett wrote: > My understanding of GRUB is that it uses a menu.lst file in /boot/grub > to supply the boot options. That is certainly what my SuSE > installation does. I'm not sure what role /etc/grub.conf plays, but it > is not the right place to put new boot options. On all the systems I've seen which use grub (primarily Debian systems) menu.lst is a symlink to grub.conf. I don't know for sure which one grub actually looks for (the manpage suggests menu.lst) but if you modify the other one and they aren't linked you'll run into trouble... -- Ian Campbell Flon's Law: There is not now, and never will be, a language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad programs. -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss