Bug 62403

Summary:	/boot/grub/grub.conf violates the FHS
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Chris Ricker <chris.ricker>
Component:	grub	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Glen Foster <glen>
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Description Chris Ricker 2002-03-31 06:25:20 UTC

The LSB mandates that all boot loader config files be in /etc with all the other
config files.  From page 9 of LSB-2.2:

3.5 /boot : Static files of the boot loader
3.5.1 Purpose
This directory contains everything required for the boot process except
configuration files and the map
installer. Thus /boot stores data that is used before the kernel begins
executing user-mode programs.
This may include saved master boot sectors, sector map files, and other data
that is not directly edited by
hand.2

2.    Programs necessary to arrange for the boot loader to be able to boot a
file must be placed in /sbin. Configuration files for
boot loaders must be placed in /etc.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-04-01 04:18:57 UTC

It's the FHS, not the LSB.  And this is clearly a case of standards
drain-bamage.because for boot loaders that are sane and can actually read their
config files off the filesystem, the config file has to be in the same physical
partition as the kernels and boot loader images.  We do, though, provide a
symlink of /etc/grub.conf to help out somewhat.

Now to figure out the proper channels for getting brokenness out of the FHS (the
LSB at least has a bug database :-)