This is what the caldera install does as well. Create symlink loop as
/boot/boot back to boot.
Dave wrote:
>
> It's not a fatal bug but very annoying.
>
> The menu.lst file cannot be processed as usual for every user who has a
> boot partition mounted as /boot under linux because of the hard coded path
> for menu.lst in asmtub.c on line 89 in grub 0.5.95.
>
> Because of this I had to make another directory and move everything.
>
> Instead of /boot/grub/menu.lst I have /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst.
>
> It should work with a symbolic link
> ln -s /boot /boot/boot
>
> This bug doesn't affect anyone who doesn't have a separate boot partition
> mounted under the name /boot.
>
> here is my partition table info.
>
> /dev/hda1 /dos vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
> /dev/hdc2 /dos2 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
> /dev/hdc1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hdc3 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/hdc4 / ext2 defaults 1 1
>
> as you can see /boot is not on the same partition as / and that is where
> your problem lies.
>
> I hope I didn't repeat myself too much. It was very confusing for me and
> it took over an hour to fix.
>
> If you have any questions please email me.
>
> Dave
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