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.

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> 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

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> 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.