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cpcnw

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Registered: 2013-01-28

Posts: 41

Grub Conundrum [SOLVED]

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!

Trixar_za

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: Grub Conundrum [SOLVED]

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)

cpcnw

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Registered: 2013-01-28

Posts: 41

Re: Grub Conundrum [SOLVED]

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

Its weird...

cpcnw

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Registered: 2013-01-28

Posts: 41

Re: Grub Conundrum [SOLVED]

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