I am getting a Boot Menu when starting my machine and it waits until I manually select a menu choice to continue. I would like this Boot Menu to not appear, so the machine will auto-start on a power fail - but I cannot get it to go away.

The Boot Menu choices are:

1). Removable Devices
2). Hard Drive
3). ATAPI CD ROM Drive
4). Network Boot
5). 8XX SCSI CD-ROM SYMBIOS

<Enter Setup?>

I have looked in the BIOS setup, and cannot find anything that would be causing this.

ps - I am NOT dual booting. Fedora Core 3 is the only operating system on the machine.

Grub or Lilo?

Either way you can set it to auto-boot after a certain time, but we need to know your boot loader before we can tell you how

Hi,

This looks like a BIOS settings problem, not a (linux) bootloader problem.

Don't know what your box looks like, but I don't think you want to boot from a removable device (option 1). Try moving the Removable Devices option down (below cdrom), safe BIOS settings and reboot.

The entry could be correct, but then a non-bootable removable device is found (not by linux, you aren't at that stage yet)..

Hope this helps.

You might get some specific help if you told us which motherboard and bios you're using. The menu you mention is (to me, at least) clearly a bios menu, and thus a bios setting needs changing.

I don't get this BIOS looking menu on an Actions / Logout / Restart the Computer. I only get it on a power down and startup.

I changed the menu in the BIOS for boot order, to set it up so that Removable Devices is near the bottom. Hard Drive is in the number 1). spot. I still get this menu on a power down restart.

The BIOS is a Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 BIOS version 8990T
I also get a SYMBIOS SDSM V4.0 PIC SCSI BIOS message during boot up.

How do I determine which motherboard that I am using?

I am not sure about Grub versus Lilo - what is a quick method to tell?

I agree that this appears to be a BIOS setting, but I cannot find anything odd about the settings, when I go into setup.

Any suggestions?

I am still looking for help on this issue.

I have done a lot of searching for related issues and have come up with nothing.

What information would help in troubleshooting this?

Thank you.

try disabling everything except for the hdd in the boot menu. Usually you'd have to press something like F12 to see a boot menu.