Grub default selection and countdown

Hi,

Over the last couple of days, my Grub install seems to have changed behaviour, but without me touching it at all.

I've got Suse 9.3 installed, with an off-the-shelf kernel, plus a customised one and winXP for games. I've not even run YaST recently.

Grub defaults to the off-the-shelf kernel, with an 8 second countdown before booting into it. But the weird bit is that it has now stopped counting down. I've tried changing a couple of settings in Grub, so that the settings should be re-applied, but nothing, it just refuses to count down. It even displays the 8 seconds (or whatever I set it to), but doesn't count.

Any ideas on a fix would be warmly welcomed, I know it's a minor thing, but I like to turn the PC on and then wander off to feed the cat or pick up the mail.

have you tried to actually edit the grub file. It should be at

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/boot/grub/menu.lst

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or

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/boot/grub/grub.conf

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and change the time
mine set for 5 sec for example

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## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout        5

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Originally Posted by Vergil83

have you tried to actually edit the grub file.

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Thanks, I'd always stuck to the the distro utilities because I've only ever used lilo before, and I was uncertain whether I could do that.

So I've tried it, and nothing. The number does change, but the countdown doesn't happen!

Would you mind posting your grub menu.lst file so we can have a look at it?

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Originally Posted by ozar

Would you mind posting your grub menu.lst file so we can have a look at it?

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Of course! This is the latest version - I chopped it down today to simplify it a bit (hasn't fixed the problem, but it's not referring to two windows partitions that aren't bootable, and a couple of old kernels I tried to build and don't actually use)

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Dec 24 16:29:48 GMT 2005

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 1
timeout 10


title Linux-2.6.13-15.7-default
root (hd1,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.13-15.7-default root=/dev/hdb3 vga=0x31a selinux=0 resume=/dev/hdb2 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.13-15.7-default

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title SUSE LINUX 10.0
root (hd1,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb3 vga=0x31a selinux=0 resume=/dev/hdb2 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd

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title XEN
root (hd1,2)
kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=1245184
module /boot/vmlinuz-xen root=/dev/hdb3 vga=0x31a selinux=0 resume=/dev/hdb2 splash=silent showopts
module /boot/initrd-xen

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title windows 1
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

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title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 10.0
root (hd1,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb3 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume selinux=0 nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd

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