Grub problem

[Tod Merley]

On 5/3/07, Tod <tod at stthomasepc.org> 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
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Hi Tod!

I am not sure exactly what you are saying.

Can you hit a key (in particular escape) when the boot screen
(splash?) first comes up and see the boot menu?

Can you boot at all?

I would be checking CMOS (sometimes strange things happen when the
battery gets low and you can restore by selecting the factory
defaults) for proper parameters and boot devices selected.  Check the
cables and disk selection jumpers (if applicable) to see that the
"mastered" device is selected to boot and can.

You may do well to use a live CD to poke arround in the machine and
amongst the disks to see what is going on.  There are a number of good
"rescue" live CDs out there that may help.

The parted, fdisk, and normail tail and list tools should allow you to
look at the disks, setup files, and log files which may contain a
clue.

Good Hunting!

Tod