[clue] \boot\grub\grub.conf - versus \etc\grub.conf

[Paul B]

Yes /etc/grub.conf is a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf in rhel variants
that use bios boot mode.  If that link wasn't present or a file was written
in /etc then the changes would not apply to file in boot which actually
determines how grub boots.

This configuration is definitely not universal, for instance Ubuntu has a
defaults file that you may update variables in, then apply changes using
update-grub.  UEFI makes it more complicated.


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Dan Kulinski <daniel at kulinski.net> wrote:

> Generally /etc/grub.conf is a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Something I'm confused about.   I'm trying to put passwords on grub, and
>> for the longest time I couldn't figure out the issue.  There's something
>> different that I won't go into, but what I'm really curious about is I
>> noticed that on systems where the password was working properly,
>> /etc/grub.conf and /boot/grub/grub.conf were the same thing.  On systems
>> where it didn't work, they were not.
>>
>> Does anyone understand the relationship between the two files?    Is
>> /boot/grub/grub.conf generated automatically, do I just need to make sure
>> to overwrite both locations with the correct file by hand or by script?
>>
>> Mike B
>>
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