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Sean Nelson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sean Nelson <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 4 Oct 2011 15:24:44 -0600
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Ok, Thanks! That solved the grub issue. Any takers on the frist problem?

On 10/4/11, Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 4 October 2011 22:12, Sean Nelson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hello, I just installed SL6 from the Live CD and I'm having two post
>> install issues.
>
> <snip>
>
>> 2) I dual boot Linux & Windows 7. SL6 is on my first 1.5 TB HDD and
>> Windows 7 is on my 2nd 500GiB HDD. The grub boot menu does not show up
>> on startup, instead it goes straight to the SL splash screen. How do I
>> change this? I edited my /boot/grub/grub.conf and these are my
>> changes:
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
>> #
>> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
>> file
>> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
>> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
>> #          root (hd0,0)
>> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_megatron-lv_root
>> #          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
>> #boot=/dev/sda
>> default=0
>> timeout=0
>> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>> hiddenmenu
>
> <snip>
>
>> What am I doing wrong here?
>
> You should set the timeout line to a suitable number of seconds (say
> 5) and comment out (or delete) the hiddenmenu line.
>
> Alan.
>

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