multiple grub menu.lst?

[Derek Broughton]

Charlie Zender wrote:

>  > >  > Grub is finding the menu.lst in /boot/grub of the partition that
>  > >  > was named
>  > >  > as the boot partition when you did (probably implicitly)
>  > >  > "grub-install". Unless you have created a new /boot or /
>  > >  > partition, it's still looking in the same place.
>  > >
>  > > Unfortunately, that seems to describe what is happening.
>  >
>  > Not a problem then.  You just need to run "grub-install" with the new
>  > partition as the target.  OR you can edit the old menu.lst with the
>  > boot params in the _new_ menu.lst.
> 
> I tried grub-install as suggested by glgxg above and, as reported above,
> the system
> stopped booting. The problem with editing menu.lst was that I could
> never find the menu.lst that it was booting from. Am trying fresh
> install now.

Well, I don't know if you hadn't said, or if I'd just failed to read, but
the problem really seems to be the LVM.  I use LVM, but I keep the root
partition on a primary.  Too many headaches, otherwise.
-- 
derek