"Press any key to enter menu" booting loop

[servantsoffire]

Hi,

I have just installed Fedora 12.
After my pc boots up, the message:

"Press any key to enter menu,
Booting boot in __seconds" appears and proceeds to count down from 3 to 1 seconds.

This continues to appear until I press any key and then the GRUB boot menu appears:

Fedora (2.6.31.6-145.fc12.i686.PAE)
Boot

If I choose "Fedora", it boots properly into the login screen.
What do I need to do to have the system boot directly into the log in screen, without going into this loop, boot menu and having to choose what to boot? Thanks much.

Chuck

[CSchwangler]

Can you show your /boot/grub/menu.lst file?

[diamond_ramsey]

Chuck, thank you for your post.

Originally Posted by servantsoffire

...What do I need to do to have the system boot directly into the log in screen, without going into this loop, boot menu and having to choose what to boot?...

As CSchwangler suggests about showing your /boot/grub/menu.lst file, also known as /boot/grub/grub.conf first.

If you only have one system to "boot" for example, only fedora, then as root within the /boot/grub/menu.lst file, make the following two changes:

timeout=0
hiddenmenu

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For example, the timeout=0 will wait zero second...
Whereas, the timeout=1 would wait one second...
I think that the hiddenmenu option will "hide" the grub menu.

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Someone else had the same experience, see URL -

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...ght=hiddenmenu

There is an info grub for reference.

Hope this helps.

[servantsoffire]

To CSchwangler and diamond_ramsey,

Thanks so much for taking the time to answer.
I actually found another way in going to the menu bar: Administrator>Bootloader.
I made it to just boot to Fedora 12 and that did it!
Now when the pc boots it goes right into Fedora 12 without the looping.
Thanks so much!

Chuck