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? > > mark > > grub.conf: > #boot=/dev/sda > default=0 > timeout=5 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > hiddenmenu > title CentOS (2.6.18-164.2.1.el5) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.img > title CentOS (2.6.18-164.el5) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.el5.img > <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. ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** *******************************************************************************