Re: Name of config file looks ambiguous to GRUB newbies

[David Horton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeroen Dekkers [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 03:10 PM
> To: 'Yedidyah Bar-David'
> Cc: 'Uwe Dippel', address@hidden, address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Name of config file looks ambiguous to GRUB newbies
> 
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 03:47:15PM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:46:48PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:11:07PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> > > > I'm a zealot. To me the correct one would be ...../etc/grub.conf
> > > > And everyone with a Unix-brain will understand.
> > > 
> > > And everyone with a brain will understand that if /etc is on a
> > > partition not accessible by grub and /boot is a seperate partition
> > > which is accessible it just won't work.  And then I'm not even talking
> > > about situations in which people want to change the grub config from
> > > within different OSes which don't support every filesystem etc.
> > 
> > You don't have to be so harsh. The intention was that /boot became in
> > recent years a mess, and maybe it's time to put into it some Unix-
> > traditional order. E.g.
> > /boot/etc/grub.conf
> > /boot/lib/grub/*stage* (or even /boot/lib/grub-$version/...)
> 
> I don't see a mess. In /boot/grub is only menu.lst, device.map and a
> few stage files. There is certainly no need to make a full un*x
> directory layout for /boot.
> 
> > There will of course be backwards-compatibility problems - you can't
> > easily move /boot/System.map-$version, probably other such things as
> > well.
> > 
> > I also find it weird that at least RedHat writes /boot/kernel.h
> > every boot. Shouldn't it be somewhere under /var?
> 
> Both things aren't GRUB issues.
>  
> > The FHS says quite little about /boot. In particular, it says:
> > "Configuration files for boot loaders should be placed in /etc."
> 
> I don't like the FHS, but it actually talks about bootloaders and even
> about GRUB and says that its config should be under /boot.
> 
> > That's, of course, was written for the lilo days, the FS-agnostic
> > boot-loader days. Maybe it's time for an update.
> 
> GRUB exists since 1995.
> 


Hi,

I just want to clarify my original suggestion about the GRUB config file, 
because I think it has gotten lost.

A lowercase 'L' looks a lot like a number '1' so it is difficult to tell if the 
config file name should be 'menu dot list' or 'menu dot first'.

I think changing the config file's name, not the path, would eliminate the 
confusion.

Dave