[CentOS] grub problems

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> This is irritating: I've got a server I just upgraded to 5.4, then
>> rebooted, only to discover that it just *sits* there at the grub boot
>> menu. I looked at grub.conf, and uncommented hiddenmenu (which should
>> have been done long ago).
>>
>> It *still* sits there when I reboot. Any clues, folks?
>>
>> <snip>
>
> Try labelling root as the actual drive, not using the LABEL as above.
> In other words, something like this:
>
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
>
> Otherwise, your grub.conf is exactly like mine, and it works without issue
> here.

Just tried, no joy: *still* sits at the chosen menu item. And yeah, it's
identical to our other systems. It's as though grub isn't seeing
hiddenmenu.

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