Author: trotter Date: To: lug, Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] suse 10.3 and grub not updating
At 23:30 14/10/2008, you wrote: > > Are you saying that in the new grub menu.lst is replaced with grub.cfg?
>
>On my (WBEL) system, menu.lst is a symlink to grub.conf. They are the same
>thing...
>
> >> I also
> >> had trouble with the naming of drives changing which caused great
> >> confusion. Could either of those be your problem?
> >
> > I not sure what you mean there.
> > Are you saying that the suse installer might be writing grub to a
> > different hard drive?
>
>Nomenclature changes; what was previously hda might now be sda.
>
>It's easy to get into a mess with grub, especially when the BIOS boot
>order changes[1] ;-(
>
>Vic.
>
>[1] Which is why hobgoblin is still booting from PATA - I really made a
>mess the other weekend...
Are you saying its best to boot linux from a pata drive normally rather than
sata?
