Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-07 Thread Roger
Do you have two disparate grub.conf files? I have only ever edited /boot/grub/menu.lst to alter how grub boots. I do not know if this the correct thing to do but in doing so I 've not had any problems. Roger -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-07 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:05:07 +1100, Roger wrote: Do you have two disparate grub.conf files? I have only ever edited /boot/grub/menu.lst to alter how grub boots. I do not know if this the correct thing to do but in doing so I 've not had any problems. Roger /boot/grub/grub.conf is the

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-07 Thread hongwei hou
Yes exactly! 2009/12/7 Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:05:07 +1100, Roger wrote: Do you have two disparate grub.conf files? I have only ever edited /boot/grub/menu.lst to alter how grub boots. I do not know if this the correct thing to do but in doing so I

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-07 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 00:05 +1100, Roger wrote: I have only ever edited /boot/grub/menu.lst to alter how grub boots. I do not know if this the correct thing to do That should be fine. Do you have more than one boot partition? -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-07 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 10:56 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: /boot/grub/grub.conf is the configuration file /boot/grub/menu.lst is just a symlink for compatibility As I recall, that's a Red Hat-ism. The menu.lst file being the default GRUB file, as used by GRUB, and grub.conf being the file

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-07 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:59:03 +1030, Tim wrote: /boot/grub/grub.conf is the configuration file /boot/grub/menu.lst is just a symlink for compatibility As I recall, that's a Red Hat-ism. True. The menu.lst file being the default GRUB file, as used by GRUB, Not true. The default

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-07 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 00:05 +1100, Roger wrote: Do you have two disparate grub.conf files? I have only ever edited /boot/grub/menu.lst to alter how grub boots. I do not know if this the correct thing to do but in doing so I 've not had any problems. Roger Actually what you are doing is

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-07 Thread Joachim Backes
On 12/07/2009 04:15 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 00:05 +1100, Roger wrote: Do you have two disparate grub.conf files? I have only ever edited /boot/grub/menu.lst to alter how grub boots. I do not know if this the correct thing to do but in doing so I 've not had any problems.

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-07 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 19:27 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: On 12/07/2009 04:15 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 00:05 +1100, Roger wrote: Do you have two disparate grub.conf files? I have only ever edited /boot/grub/menu.lst to alter how grub boots. I do not know if this

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-07 Thread Tim
Joachim Backes: What's then the difference between editing grub.conf and menu.lst? None! Aaron Konstam: None, Other than, when something breaks the symlinks, making them two independent files. (It can happen.) How did youu guess the relationship between the two files? No guessing needed.

Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-06 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hello, I am running Fedora 12, and I have the problem that grub seems to ignore the timeout-value set. In /etc/grub.conf I've set timeout=5 however grub always skips the menu, and loads the first/default entry immediatly. Any ideas what could be the problem? Thank you in advance, Clemens --

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-06 Thread William Witt
On 12/06/2009 03:37 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hello, I am running Fedora 12, and I have the problem that grub seems to ignore the timeout-value set. In /etc/grub.conf I've set timeout=5 however grub always skips the menu, and loads the first/default entry immediatly. Any ideas what could be

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-06 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Clemens Eisserer linuxhi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am running Fedora 12, and I have the problem that grub seems to ignore the timeout-value set. In /etc/grub.conf I've set timeout=5 Set timeout to 10. For some reason, 5 is too short. -- fedora-list

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-06 Thread Clemens Eisserer
You probably sitll have the menu hidedn. Look for the line in your /boot/grub/grub.conf that says: hiddenmenu and comment it out with a #. Set timeout to 10. For some reason, 5 is too short. Thanks for both suggestions. Hiddenmenu is not enabled (in fact I can see the grub menu for a very

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-06 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 15:37 -0500, Clemens Eisserer wrote: In /etc/grub.conf I've set timeout=5 however grub always skips the menu, and loads the first/default entry immediatly. Do you have two disparate grub.conf files? /etc/grub.conf is supposed to be a link to the real file