grub does not timeout

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RickyVaio
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grub does not timeout

#1 Post by RickyVaio »

My grub config does not start the countdown to boot automatically an entry... Any ideas?

The menu.lst is "timeout 10"; Grub says it will start countdown, but it does not... stays always in 10 seconds. Other than that, it works OK... What can it be?
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paulh177
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#2 Post by paulh177 »

post your menu.lst here to see if someone can spot a problem which you're not seeing at the moment
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RickyVaio
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#3 Post by RickyVaio »

This is it...

# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.
# generated by 'grubconfig'. Sun May 20 17:13:13 2007
#
# The backup copy of the MBR for drive '/dev/hda' is
# here '/boot/grub/mbr.hda.17506'. You can restore it like this.
# dd if=/boot/grub/mbr.hda.17506 of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
#
# Start GRUB global section
default 0
timeout 10

color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
# End GRUB global section
# Other bootable partition config begins
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
# Other bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Linux
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
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ICPUG
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#4 Post by ICPUG »

RickyVaio

My menu.lst (using Grub4DOS) has:

default=0
timeout=10


Is the '=' sign important?

ICPUG
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amigo
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#5 Post by amigo »

You need to leave out the '=' characters for it to work -replace them with a space.
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RickyVaio
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#6 Post by RickyVaio »

Um... Now I'm confused. Do I use the = or not?
I'm not using it and it is not working, but Grub recognizes the command... Only it does not start the countdown.
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#7 Post by Béèm »

RickyVaio wrote:Um... Now I'm confused. Do I use the = or not?
I'm not using it and it is not working, but Grub recognizes the command... Only it does not start the countdown.
You can always try with the = and report back, so everybody knows.
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#8 Post by muggins »

I've no idea why your timeout isn't working. Here they think the problem could be related to a dead cmos battery.

Whereas this one reportedly had their bios putting a keystroke into the buffer, & grub was reading that as a keypress.
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RickyVaio
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#9 Post by RickyVaio »

Oh well. I'll do it manually then.

Thanks!
RickyVaio
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