Bug 6300

Summary:	Grub 0.92: "menu.lst" does not work, "grub.conf" does.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sven Blumenstein (RETIRED) <bazik>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Michael Cohen (RETIRED) <mjc>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major	CC:	azarah, mholzer, mkrainer, styx, vapier
Priority:	Low
Version:	1.3
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	6820
Bug Blocks:

Description Sven Blumenstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-08-10 13:51:08 UTC

I changed my System shortly from XFS to ReiserFS. 
The current Grub-Version used in Gentoo (Grub 0.90)
had some Problems with not recognizing ReiserFS. So 
I unmasked Grub 0.92 and installed it. It recognized 
ReiserFS and was installabled from the grub-shell 
without problems.
But at the first reboot, it didnt display the menu.
I double and tripple checked my menu.lst for typos but
it was 110% correct. Plus I could boot the system from
the shell. After some trying and guessing, I renamed
the menu.lst to "grub.conf" and ...BANG... it works!
I couldnt find anything about a naming change in the 
Grub Changelog, but this should be tested by others, 
too.

Comment 1 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-08-10 14:16:43 UTC

The last line of the ebuild states that menu.lst has been renamed to grub.conf
in this release. Perhaps either red texting that message, or doing a dosym from
menu.lst to grub.conf might make it easier/break less?

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-08-10 17:10:27 UTC

i think the dosym idea would be good ...
just checking to see if grub.conf exists and if not, sym-linking it to menu.lst 
and informing the user would generate a lot less headaches :)

Comment 3 Markus Krainer 2002-09-03 14:53:20 UTC

submitted grub-0.92-r1 which fixes this bug.
(see bug #6820)

  Markus

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-09-05 14:25:21 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6820 ***