-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:24:45 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE5hU+kpJ43hY3cTURAncAAJ9oCztl8UChC/Fa2nOCvmAGaO0IFQCfQ+rj asNGBqcwLyqbeBkFpH3jeXQ= =2s8H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
