Grub problem

Tod tod at stthomasepc.org
Wed May 9 20:49:07 UTC 2007


Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 21:08 -0400, Tod wrote:
>> Tod Merley wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> I'm actually assisting a remote user.  The problem is that if the 
>> machine reboots, which it magically seems to be doing every Saturday,
>> and there is no one around, it sits at the Grub splash screen until 
>> someone shows up on Monday and selects a kernel to boot to.  After that 
>> everything is fine.
> 
> I'd be checking every crontab I can find for the reboot issue.  I'd also
> be checking the machine for rootkits and other malware.  This sounds
> like the machine's "owned" by a hacker.
> 

I did and found nothing, very frustrating.  Any ideas on what to look 
for that I may have missed?

I'm going to do a clamscan tonight to see if that turns up anything.


Tod




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