Grub doesn't timeout?

[bjorntj]

I have a dual boot menu in grub on my laptop with a timeout on 5 seconds, but when booting it never boots and doesn't even count down... I have tried different distroes and the same thing happends, no timeout....

Doen anyone know why and perhaps have a solution?

(btw, installed SuSE 10.1 this weekend and their grub installation worked; I suddenly had a grub menu with a timeout that worked)


Regards,

BTJ

[liro]

have you installed different distros at the same time?

if so, check that you edited the right grub.conf...its possible to have grub installed on /dev/hda (probably the one your bios uses), and the another in /dev/hda1 and another in /dev/hda3 and so on...

[bjorntj]

No, only one distro at the same time... And grub is always installed on the master boot record....

BTJ

[liro]

can you post your grub.conf?

[bjorntj]

My grub.conf looks like this...(it's the default config...) :


# 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 (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda5
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.16-1.2122_FC5)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.16-1.2111_FC5)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.16-1.2111_FC5.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1



BTJ

[xerxesfedora]

Change timeout to 30 (as I did) it gives you 30 sec for choice (and save it)

[bjorntj]

Not sure what good that would do...?

BTJ

[bjorntj]

Well, I tried setting timeout to 30 sec. but with the same result....


BTJ