install over install conflict ?

[bigvoo]

hi..umm. so I had mint 7 installed from a disk i burnen myself, and was trying to diagnose a problem, I thought maybe my disk was at fault, so i installed mint 7 from a disk out of a magazine over mine..used " use whole disk: option. well, now when i boot up, I never get the page right before the desktop and login that page with memtest and the other kernal version, or wheat ever. it just boots straight into login: my question is, did I some how confuse the bios by installing the identical o.s over itself ?

[oz]

my question is, did I some how confuse the bios by installing the identical o.s over itself ?

No, I highly doubt that your BIOS became confused from Linux being installed over itself.

[rokytnji]

bigvoo, How about you post your /boot/grub/menu.lst

See if Timeout is set to "0" timeout 0

If it is.

Open Terminal and type in (if using Gnome Desktop)

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

And change timeout from 0 to like 25 (seconds) or whatever time you wish for grub menu to show up.

To give you a idea. Here is my /boot/grub/menu.lst on my Asus EEE running dual boot Xandros and Antix

timeout 30
color cyan/blue white/blue
foreground ffffff
background 0639a1

gfxmenu /boot/grub/message

title antiX at sdc1, kernel 2.6.27-1-mepis-smp
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-1-mepis-smp root=/dev/sdc1 nomce quiet nosplash vga=791 
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-1-mepis-smp
boot

title xandros 4
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21.4-eeepc quiet rw vga=785 irqpoll root=/dev/sda1
initrd /boot/initramfs-eeepc.img

title MEMTEST
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin

[bigvoo]

that's it rok, ironically i just checked back here, I had found a wiki on linux mint having grub problems back in nov 08, so maybe this disk I used is old enough that it wasn't resolved yet...messing with grub is a new step for me, so im going to do it tomorrow when im not so sleepy...( afraid i might wake up and find my comp ingulfed in flames 0o0. but thanks again.