On 4 October 2011 22:12, Sean Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, I just installed SL6 from the Live CD and I'm having two post > install issues.
<snip> > 2) I dual boot Linux & Windows 7. SL6 is on my first 1.5 TB HDD and > Windows 7 is on my 2nd 500GiB HDD. The grub boot menu does not show up > on startup, instead it goes straight to the SL splash screen. How do I > change this? I edited my /boot/grub/grub.conf and these are my > changes: > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > # root (hd0,0) > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_megatron-lv_root > # initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img > #boot=/dev/sda > default=0 > timeout=0 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > hiddenmenu <snip> > What am I doing wrong here? You should set the timeout line to a suitable number of seconds (say 5) and comment out (or delete) the hiddenmenu line. Alan.
