wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 08:53:01 -0500:
-rw------- 1 root root 816 May 7 05:08 grub.conf
got changed 5:08 today. Are you sure you booted after that? What does uname -a show now?
default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.18-53.1.14.el5) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5.img
The machine *is* booting vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 and you should also be able to see all three available boot options. You should be seeing something like "booting CentOS in x seconds". You can interrupt this by pressing a key. You should then see all three options and the first one with CentOS (2.6.18- 53.1.14.el5) highlighted. If you continue with that I don't see a way it could not be booting into vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5.
What makes me wonder a bit is this: (hd0,2). If you set this system up new with CentOS 5 this would hardly be the case if you accepted default partitioning options. Is there another system, maybe Windows, on the disk or some external boot manager or so?
Kai