On Sunday 12 October 2008 14:55:16 Randy McMurchy wrote:
> And if the book says to create this file *after* running the
> following commands, don't you find *that* weird?
Haha, a little, but I could see merit ;)
Hmm... I get the same output with or without the menu.list in place. It
looks like the location /boot/grub/menu.lst is just a default. For
instance:
cp /boot/grub/*stage* ~/
grub> root (hd0,12)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup --prefix=/root (hd0)
Checking if "/root/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/root/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/root/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /root/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 15 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running "install /root/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p
(hd0,12)/root/stage2 /root/men
u.lst"... succeeded
Done.
< Quote from info (Sorry, I'm not that familiar with info. I got to this
page from the Index and install.>
If the options `p' or CONFIG_FILE are present, then it
reads the first block of stage2, modifies it with the values of
the partition STAGE2_FILE was found on (for `p') or places the
string CONFIG_FILE into the area telling the stage2 where to look
for a configuration file at boot time.
< End Quote >
It goes on, but according to the steps taken in the book I'm not sure
that anything is modified by the menu.list being in place. I have also
run setup with and without the menu.lst in place and run the following
to try and confirm this:
bash-3.2# dd if=/dev/sda of=/root/mbr1 bs=512 count=1
bash-3.2# dd if=/dev/sda of=/root/mbr2 bs=512 count=1
bash-3.2# diff -s mbr mbr2
Files mbr and mbr2 are identical
bash-3.2#
Anyhow, I'm pretty convinced and I like how the page looks.
One more point:
If you have managed to install grub and then crash, you're not
technically unable to boot, as you will end up in the grub shell and
should be able to muddle your way through it ;).
Trent.
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