Re: Where's the grub boot menu?
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On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:24:45 -0700
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:14:33PM -0500, Jacob S wrote:
> > Howdy list,
> >
> > I'm sure this must be a simple problem, but I can't find it on
> > Google.
> >
> > When I boot my server, grub always drops me into it's shell,
> > instead of giving me a boot menu, or even booting the default.
> > Having to type 3 lines at least 40 characters long just to get it
> > to boot each time gets a bit tiring.
> >
> > I have tried changing the default line in menu.lst, as well as an
> > update-grub and even a grub-install, all to no avail.
> >
> > Can anyone point out what I'm missing?
>
> well, just to get the obvious out of the way, where is menu.lst
> located? should be in /boot/grub/menu.lst
Yes, it is.
# ls -l /boot/grub/menu.lst
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3761 2006-08-18 12:05 /boot/grub/menu.lst
/boot is /dev/sda1 and root is /dev/sda5.
When I ran grub-install I gave it the options
"--root-directory=/boot /dev/sda".
Any other thoughts?
Thanks,
Jacob
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