Fedora 10 grub

[glennzo]

Anyone seen behavior with grub where it doesn't count down and boot the default OS? I 've seen this lately with my laptop and Fedora 10 / Other OS's. Boot the computer and I get the menu but no count down. It will sit there for ever if I let it. No big deal really but just wondering if anyone else has seen this.

cause of Plymouth isnt Fedora Set to boot eh default OS straight off till you press the spacebar to select what OS you wanna boot from?

[glennzo]

Could be. I'm just going the "old fashioned" way. I don't use the graphical boot so I see all that "boring" text scroll by as the system boots. I manually edit grub to set things the way I want them, but seem to have lost the countdown / boot default OS feature. No biggie. Here's my config:

default=0
timeout=30
splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title   Fedora 10 Beta (2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686)
	root (hd0,5)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=7abe0a95-1021-4d3e-a762-f2ceb9833382 vga=791
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686.img
title   Fedora 10 Beta (2.6.27.4-58.fc10.i686)
	root (hd0,5)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.4-58.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=7abe0a95-1021-4d3e-a762-f2ceb9833382 vga=791
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.4-58.fc10.i686.img
title	Ubuntu 8.10 (2.6.27-7-generic)
	root (hd0,4)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=81de0f1f-daee-40fa-b0cc-0d5e0636deab ro quiet splash 
	initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
	quiet
title   Windows Vista
	rootnoverify (hd0,1)
	chainloader +1
title	Windows XP
	root (hd0,2)
	chainloader +1

i havent used fedora10 yet, but Glenn if you used Debain, i think it may boot in a similiar way .. i dunno, just a guess

[glennzo]

Don't want to start another thread on GRUB. I'm using Fedora 10 Beta grub to boot my laptop. There is a line, chaintimeout=5, in the grub configuration and I'm wondering what this is. When I boot the computer the timeout works now, contrary to what I had stated in my first post. Timeout is set to 30 but the default boots in 5 seconds as per chaintimeout. I've looked at the grub manual here, http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html and have had a look see at the Fedora 10 release notes. Don't see anything about this feature. Anyone have any idea on this?

default=1
timeout=30
chaintimeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title   Fedora 10 Beta 64Bit (2.6.27.4-68.fc10.x86_64)
	root (hd0,4)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.x86_64 ro root=UUID=fb35e07e-de85-45da-93a9-643b63c90098 rhgb quiet
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.x86_64.img
title   Fedora 10 Beta (2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686)
	root (hd0,5)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=7abe0a95-1021-4d3e-a762-f2ceb9833382 vga=791
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686.img
title   Windows Vista
	rootnoverify (hd0,1)
	chainloader +1
title	Windows XP
	root (hd0,2)
	chainloader +1

[stoat]

I don't use Fedora 10 yet, but was interested in the new command anyway.

First, regarding the GRUB manual, I don't think that is being maintained anymore...

GNU GRUB manual

This is the documentation of GNU GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, a flexible and powerful boot loader program for pcs.

This edition documents version 0.97.

This manual is for GNU GRUB (version 0.97, 8 May 2005).

Copyright © 1999,2000,2001,2002,2004,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Next, the only thing I found on the Internet about chaintimeout was this by Peter Jones. It looks like code for a patch to GRUB for version 0.97-36. It's interesting to read, and gives a little information about the new GRUB menu command.

[glennzo]

Thanks stoat. I'll mark the link and have a read later. Seems that chaintimeout is the boss so far. Timeout=30, chaintimeout=5. Default boots in 5 seconds.