Re: System booting to the GRUB prompt instead of menu

[Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote:
> Hi everyone,

[snip]

> would rather see the details so a couple of days ago I removed the
> option that said "splash=silent" (it was there by default) in my
> /boot/grub/menu.lst . Since then it has taken me to the GRUB prompt

[snip]

> I've tried adding that option back in and I've tried repairing GRUB,
> but is not able to rectify the problem.  It appears to me like GRUB
> isn't reading from /boot/grub/menu.lst at all!!  I've posted this
> question in various forums but so far no help whatsoever.  If anyone
> has any suggestions, I would like to hear it.

Maybe it isn't. Do you have a /boot/grub/grub.conf file?

Mike
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