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

Mark Williamson wrote:
>>ok, i see the point.
>>
>>other question: pygrub::get_config(fn) tries to read
>>"/boot/grub/grub.conf". Normally this should be "/boot/grub/menu.lst".
>>I wonder which distro are you working on?
> 
> My FC3 box has menu.lst as a symlink to grub.conf.  Grub seems to be happy 
> with either of these names.  Painful experience suggests that if both files 
> are present, then "menu.lst" will "win".

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...

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center

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