GRUB and boot.b

From: Allen Kistler (ackistler_at_oohay.moc)
Date: 12/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 08:48:03 GMT

RH9 uses grubby to update grub and lilo config when installing or
removing a kernel. boot.b is "owned" by lilo.

Since I use grub, I removed lilo from one of my machines, just to see if
anything would break.

What breaks is grubby core dumps into /boot whenever I install or remove
a kernel, complaining in the meantime that it can't find boot.b. What
doesn't break is booting or even installing/updating the MBR with grub.

So:
Empirically grub itself doesn't need boot.b.
In documentation I find only associations of boot.b with lilo.
Other than RH9's grubby core dumps, have I missed any requirement that
grub has on boot.b?

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