On Friday 09 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@(protected)>
wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 May 2008 21:50:09 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> >> Check for /boot/grub/menu.lst, this is an alternate (and maybe
> >> empty) config file which grub seems to prefer over grub.conf.
> >
> > menu.lst has been the preferred config file for some years, it seem
> > that GRUB is a little more strict about this nowadays.
>
> I tried to read the ebuild but failed.

For reference:

It's this bit from the ebuild:

setup_boot_dir() {
    local boot_dir=$1
    local dir=${boot_dir}

    [[ ! -e ${dir} ]] && die "${dir} does not exist!"
    [[ ! -L ${dir}/boot ]] && ln -s . "${dir}/boot"
    dir="${dir}/grub"
    if [[ ! -e ${dir} ]] ; then
          mkdir "${dir}" || die "${dir} does not exist!"
    fi

    # change menu.lst to grub.conf
    if [[ ! -e ${dir}/grub.conf ]] && [[ -e ${dir}/menu.lst ]] ;
then
          mv -f "${dir}"/menu.lst "${dir}"/grub.conf
          ewarn
          ewarn "*** IMPORTANT NOTE: menu.lst has been renamed to
grub.conf"
          ewarn
    fi


it's called essentially this way in post_inst():

setup_boot_dir /boot

what it does is in essence:

1. fail if /boot does not exist
2. create /boot/boot as a link to /boot
3. create /boot/grub
4. if you don't have a grub.conf and do have a menu.lst then rename it
to grub.conf



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