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Grub Conundrum [SOLVED]

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• Started 11 years ago by cpcnw
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   cpcnw
   

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   Hi All,

   Have taz installed and up and running on a CF in a thinclient. The one thing that is driving me mad is that I cannot for the life of me figure out why grub refuses to autoboot into taz - just sits there waiting for keypress.

   I have tried every menu.lst option I have read about on the net and none of the make any difference.

   One post suggested that this happened when the BIOS battery was dead [as is mine] and that when they replaced the battery it worked? Is there a BIOS setting that could affect grub I wonder?

   At start up I think it says Grub4DOS 0.4.4

   Any suggestions appreciated!

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   Trixar_za
   

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   Have you tried setting the following in your menu.lst file:
   default 0 (assuming SliTaz is the first entry)
   timeout 1 (because 0 disables it, which waits for a keypress instead)

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   cpcnw
   

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   Short answer: Yes - exactly as you have it - no joy :(

   Its weird...

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   cpcnw
   

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   Hey - I just went back to edit menu.lst

   Last night late on I was trying 'everything' and noticed some commands required that [or failed without] put grub_ in front so for example;

   timeout chucked up an error but grub_timeout didnt.

   Now I just changed it back to what you showed and it works fine? Now I am not certain whever I did or didnt try the exact thing you had last night - but tonight it works !!!

   Here is my menu.lst for future ref ;

   default=0
   timeout=1
   title Linux
   root(hd0,0)
   kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=normal

   Posted 11 years ago #

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