Re: Booting with Grub
Well lets find out what grub is actually doing then
Reboot the computer - at the grub menu press the c key - you will be dropped to the grub command line
type find /boot/grub/menu.lst You should get one answer, presumably something like hd (0,0)
then type cat /boot/grub/menu.lst you will then be walked through this file, you should see the timeout and default lines there with your edits. Then, after you've come to the end of the file and are back at the grub prompt press the escape key to get back to the grub menu.
If this procedure reveals only 1 menu.lst file and the timeout looks set properly like timeout 4 with no #comment before it then I'm stumped. One last idea is to try the alternative syntax
default=0
timeout=4
If this still doesn't work , in your case I would be tempted to rebuild my grub from scratch. These are good resources to help you:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4622
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
Well lets find out what grub is actually doing then
Reboot the computer - at the grub menu press the c key - you will be dropped to the grub command line
type find /boot/grub/menu.lst You should get one answer, presumably something like hd (0,0)
then type cat /boot/grub/menu.lst you will then be walked through this file, you should see the timeout and default lines there with your edits. Then, after you've come to the end of the file and are back at the grub prompt press the escape key to get back to the grub menu.
If this procedure reveals only 1 menu.lst file and the timeout looks set properly like timeout 4 with no #comment before it then I'm stumped. One last idea is to try the alternative syntax
default=0
timeout=4
If this still doesn't work , in your case I would be tempted to rebuild my grub from scratch. These are good resources to help you:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4622
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
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