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

[John Nanney]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 04:11:06PM -0600, Mike Bean 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?

Hi Mike,

The one in /boot/grub is for grub2, that's when it seemed to move for me.
Usually you'll want to delete one or the other.

-John
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