Grub

[LocoCoyote]

Does anyone know why red Hat 9 uses grub.config for the start up menu and SuSE uses menu.lst?
Can anyone shed light on how this works?

[David_Jones]

grub.config is a oo wrapper around GRUB's menu.1st configfile written in python.

I don't actually pretend to understand that, I just copied it from here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/grubconfig/


HTH,

David.

[jglen490]

The grub software always expects to find /boot/grub/menu.lst, and will only work when it finds that file.

There are distros that, for whatever reason, follow the Lilo model and put a grub.conf file in /etc, then set up a link between the grub.conf and menu.lst.

There are any number of ways to edit a grub configuration file including GUI programs dedicated to nothing but editing the file. The best way in my opinion is to just use your favorite text editor and manually edit it. It's not that complex, for most installations.

[LocoCoyote]

I hear you, except that redHat 9 puts a grub.config in /boot/grub (there is no menu.lst)....just where SuSE 8.2 puts menu.lst. Just for kicks I interchanged them to see what happens and both worked (well mostly)

This isn't a big deal, just very confusing!

[jglen490]

Well, true. Of course Grub is open source, so I guess RedHat could have modified for their own purposes. I have no problem with either Lilo or Grub -- I've used both. But they are different and out of the box use different approaches to managing the boot process. Why make Grub be like Lilo, or vice-versa for that matter, who knows and I suppose who really cares .

[LocoCoyote]

For me it has never been a caring issue.......it has been a "How does this thing work" issue?

A curiosity is all...