In the past will the same redhat installation on another machine, GRUB worked fine, but having problems on the machine I am using now. The timeout and splashimage seem to be ignored.

Here are the details of my machine:
rpm -q grub -> grub-0.90-11
Kernel: 2.4.7-10
Distribution: RedHat 7.2

contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst:

grub.conf generated by anaconda

#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda2
initrd /initrd-2.4.7-10.img


The image file is in /boot/grub, and is readable and is not zero-size.

The problem is that when grub loads, the display is black and white and there is no timeout. On my previous installation, the splash image was shown (VGA display) and the timeout worked.

Not sure why this installation didn't function the same, especially since I ran the same steps during setup.

Ideas?

at mine grub.conf
default=1
timeout=10

good luck

That didn't seem to have any effect, still no image or timeout

Do you have a /boot/grub/menu.lst file?

That file and contents is listed in the original post.

O.K., my error. Is there a /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst?

I've seen where sometimes the menu.lst file ends up in a strange place -- usually a /boot/boot ... directory. I'm not sure how that happens, perhaps an update that got screwed up. Anyway, the boot code has to be looking at something other than the normal location.

There is no /boot/boot directory

Here is the boot directory:

$ cd /boot
$ ls
boot.b initrd-2.4.7-10.img lost+found module-info-2.4.7-10 System.map-2.4.7-10
chain.b kernel.h message os2_d.b vmlinuz
grub kernel.h-2.4.7 module-info System.map vmlinuz-2.4.7-10


I have read that if you set:
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

Instead of:
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

it looks relative to boot, so the first one will be /boot/boot... But I don't have that set. One person posted that there was a vga16 setting :

display vga16

but that was in reference to grub .91, and I'm not sure if that is valid for .90 version. It seems strange to me that the timeout is also not working though.

If I use locate:
[root@localhost grub]# locate menu.lst
/boot/grub/menu.lst
/usr/share/doc/grub-0.90/menu.lst

Since that is in a doc directory, I don't see it being used, but I could be wrong.

That's probably not it, because that specific location would have to be referenced in the boot code on your MBR and that would be truly weird!!

It may be that Grub is somehow confused because there is only one stanza. You might just comment out the "timeout=" line and see if it changes anything. My guess is that if it doesn't change anything, then Grub itself is somehow honked up and may need to be reinstalled or upgraded.

Tried that, no luck.

Tried upgrading to GRUB 0.91 (rpm upgrade), but still having the same issue. Also tried to make some changes to the menu.lst file to make it like the example file:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
display vga16
splashimage (hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
default 0
timeout 30

title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda2
initrd /initrd-2.4.7-10.img

title Change the colors
color light-green/brown blink-red/blue


The new title appeared and did change the color, so it is using this file for sure. Still having the same issues though. Used GIMP to open the graphic file and verified that it is valid, and it is. Still stumped...