How to generate grub.conf from scratch in Fedora 14?

Question

It seems that I hit following bug in Fedora 14 - I deselected installing grub into the MBR while using the graphical installer, because I want to use an existing grub instance.

Now, I want to look up the grub.conf or menu.lst in the new installed Fedora 14 system to adjust my existing grub config - but I cannot find them anywhere.

I just information about how grub-install and gruppy are not able to create a grub.conf from scratch.

Thus my question: How to generate a grub.conf from scratch in Fedora 14, if it is missing?

Update: The point is to get the set of default kernel options a grub.conf includes, when created by the Fedora installer.

I have booted the fedora installation via grub and only setting the 'ro root=' options which worked.

However, it would be great if someone could post a standard generated grub stanza from his/her Fedora 14 system to see the kernel parameter differences.

Answer 1

The following is the grub.conf present immediately after installation of Fedora 14 within a VirtualBox VM. During installation I used all of the default options.

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
#          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
        initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64.img

Answer 2

I'm not sure if Fedora 14 uses the legacy version of GRUB (0.97) or the new version (1.xx); you can check by running grub --version on the command line. Either way the configuration file format is pretty simple; the legacy one is documented here, and the newer one here. The newer one even comes with grub-mkconfig to generate a configuration file for you