Bug 767987

Summary:	missing symlink for grub's menu.lst
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Jan Tluka <jtluka>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Jan Tluka <jtluka>
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Priority:	high
Version:	5.8	CC:	jtluka, ovasik
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Description Jan Tluka 2011-12-15 13:20:02 UTC

Description of problem:

When I update /boot/grub/menu.lst to add some kernel parameters they won't apply during the next boot. After investigation I've found out that /boot/grub/menu.lst is not a symlink but rather an ordinary file and therefore the changes won't affect anything.

# ls -l /etc/grub.conf 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Dec 14 16:32 /etc/grub.conf -> ../boot/grub/grub.conf
# ls -l /boot/grub/menu.lst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 644 Dec 15 13:28 /boot/grub/menu.lst
# ls -l /boot/grub/grub.conf 
-rw------- 1 root root 619 Dec 14 16:32 /boot/grub/grub.conf

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tree RHEL5.8-Server-20111210.0

How reproducible:
Easily and 100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add an kernel parameter in a kernel stanza
2. reboot to the kernel with changed parameters
3. cat /proc/cmdline (check that output matches the change)
  
Actual results:
Updates to menu.lst file does not change anything

Expected results:
Updates to menu.lst are honored during next boot.

Additional info:

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2011-12-15 13:37:29 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 2 Jan Tluka 2011-12-16 10:15:38 UTC

Reopening for inclusion in 5.8 since this is obviously a regression.

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2011-12-16 10:17:35 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.