On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Mark Snyder <mark at jmktdis.com> wrote: > I recently installed CentOS 5.1 on a DL71 ASI notebook. > After my yum update the timeout parameter in /boot/grub/grub.conf file > has no effect. It sits at the grub screen forever unless I press the > enter key to select a kernel, at which point it will boot. > > Any help or suggestions to fix this would be much appreciated <snip> Have you tried to reinstall GRUB? If you do, possibly the problem will go away. <http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/ReinstallGRUB>