Grub problem

Tod tod at stthomasepc.org
Fri May 4 14:35:23 UTC 2007


Casey Stamper wrote:
> Tod wrote:
>> I'm trying to stabilize a RH9 machine so I can upgrade to FC6.  For 
>> some reason GRUB is ignoring the timeout and upon reboot leaves the 
>> boot screen up without ever booting the default image.
>>
>> Has anyone ever heard of this.  Anything I can check?
>>
>> Thanks - Tod
>>
> I think I've seen this when I edited the menu.lst and mistakenly changed 
> the default = x line to reflect an nonexistent choice (wasn't thinking - 
> was numbering them 1, 2, 3, 4 instead of 0, 1, 2, 3) and I put the 
> default as 4 instead of 3. You might look at that.

Thanks, checked that already.  I'm wondering if it isn't the version of 
grub RH9 uses.  I can't seem to find any RH9 updates when running yum 
check-update.  Maybe I'll try it manually.




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