Grub timeout ignored?

[Tim]

On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 15:37 -0500, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> In /etc/grub.conf I've set timeout=5
>  
> however grub always skips the menu, and loads the first/default entry
> immediatly.

Do you have two disparate grub.conf files?  /etc/grub.conf is supposed
to be a link to the real file /boot/grub/grub.conf.  If you've copied
things about, you might be working on a copy instead of the real file
(which could be done by breaking symlinks, or having more than one boot
partition, and post-boot-time /boot is different).

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