Michael Bevilacqua on Thu, 20 Mar 2003 23:26:35 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Redhat and GRUB {was /etc on a separate partition}


On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:09:13PM -0500, Paul wrote:
> On a loosly related note, recently I backed up my entire /etc, but when 
> I went to retrieve /etc/grub.conf, I was reminded that /etc/grub.conf is 
> a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf.  Major bummer.  Why did they, RedHat 
> or the GRUB people, do that?

AFAIK, that is only done on Redhat's installs. Gentoo, which suggests
using GRUB has no such link.

As for the reason they did that?

Perhaps they thought it would be l33t :-P

-- 
Regards,

Michael Bevilacqua

   
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