On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 8 May 2008 21:17:47 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> What would cause grub to sit there and wait for me to type in the >> stuff that's in grub.conf anyway? > > You probably have an error in grub.conf/menu.lst, or you have both and > GRUB is looking at the one you don't want it to (I think menu.lst takes > priority). GRUB isn't particularly friendly when things go wrong, I've > had it ignore a menu.lst it didn't like. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick
Dirk & Neil, Thanks. Apparently grub wants menu.lst and the install didn't create it. Strange. I created the link by hand and then the machine booted fine. I appreciate the quick answer. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
