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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Guest boot loader support

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 21:47 +0100, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > GRUB only looks for menu.lst; distros create symlinks because that's a
> > terrible name for a config file. In other words, no code should be
> > opening grub.conf...
> 
> OK, I've investigated this using my sacrificial FC3 laptop ;-)  I'd not fully 
> investigated this before.
> 
> Redhat's grub looks for grub.conf and not menu.lst.  Standard grub looks for 
> menu.lst.
> 
> If the loader is to be flexible for different domU distros, it'd be nice to 
> look for both, in one order or the other.

Yeah, oops...  I forgot about that.  I've been doing grub.conf so long
now that my mind forgets that Okuji didn't want to take the patch for
upstream grub at times.

Just checking both is the easy answer and aq has already sent the patch
to do so (thanks!)

Jeremy


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