MHR wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg > <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> wrote: > >> Mark Snyder wrote: >> >>> I do not know, but I suspect that the problem has something to do with >>> the fact that /boot is type ext2 while the rest of the file system is >>> type ext3. I must have done this accidentally installing the system. >>> It would take up to much of my time to reinstall the whole system again >>> on the laptop, setup repositories, install wine, install wireless, >>> install gstm and configure etc etc. >>> >> I doubt this is the source of your problem, but google can tell you how >> to convert an ext2 fs to ext3 (tune2fs). Very easy, nothing to reinstall. >> >> > > I agree. > > Are you sure that the hardware is supported on CentOS? I don't > recognize the specific model you mentioned, so I don't know what CPU, > motherboard, memory, etc. you have. > > Have you tried timeout=0? > > Have you checked all the PROM settings? > > I'm just fishing here 'cuz nothing so far rings a bell.... > > HTH > > mhr > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > You are both absolutely correct, changing from ext2 to ext3 did nothing to fix this. Not sure about the MB manufactured but it is a Pentium M 1.60GHz stepping 08 CPU with an Intel 915G chipset and a WD600UE ATA HDD About the only options in the BIOS are the Date and Time and the Boot sequence. I had actually tried to load Ubuntu first as I had herd (pun intended) "good things" about it. Was not at all happy with that distro and moved back to CentOS ASAP. Setting timeout=0 does allow it to boot without having to press the enter key. The splash screen just flashes then the boot starts. Not really a solution but a workaround. I can live with it this way but still curious as to what is going on.