My machine has a recent install of Debian Sarge

I have recently recompiled the 2.6.11.4 kernel and linked all fo the files when I finally decided to edit my /boot/grub/grub.conf. When I tried to open this file, I was amazed it did not even exist. Considering the fact that this seems to be the normal place for the config file (at least judging by a search for "grub.conf location") I somehow thought I deleted this file. I was amazed thought that when I rebooted grub was still there and was displaying my boot partitions. So I have been searching for the location of the grub.conf on my Sarge Debian installed and I can't seem to find it, and any help offered in locating it would be appreciated. Thanks!

Have you tried 'locate grub.conf'?

on debian it is menu.lst and not grub.conf

Debian uses menu.lst for the grub configuration? That's a bit crazy... I thought menu.lst was a supplemental file, containing info for the boot screen.

believe it ! it contains kernel entries and information about splash, timeout on my debian.

/boot/grub/menu.lst

Wow. Well, I use lilo, so I guess that's why I wouldn't know.

The code looks for menu.lst. A lot of (most actually) distros link grub.conf to menu.lst so no-one ever knows.
Some (Gentoo included, being a source distro) patch grub to actually use grub.info.
Then lnk back the other way .

And it turns out that Gentoo doesn't do it every release - Matir, have a look at the patches used for the last couple of ebuilds for (legacy) grub.
No wonder no-one knows what the hell is going on. Makes it *REAL* hard to give decent advice on a mixed board like this.

LOL, granted. I've always thought grub was still a bit volatile, and I suppose this supports that claim. Since lilo has always done everything I've wanted/needed, I've just stuck with lilo.