I've installed Puppy on HD. How can I bypass grub?

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Jerry
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I've installed Puppy on HD. How can I bypass grub?

#1 Post by Jerry »

I've installed puppy on the hd and it's the only operating system on it. When starting up, I get a menu on which I have to choose the right device to boot from. In practice, I only have to <Enter>, because the right device is on top.

How can I bypass this, so the pc will start up automatically, without the need to press <Enter> or choose a device in the menu?

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#2 Post by GuestToo »

there should be a file called menu.lst, probably in /boot/grub ... there might be a line near the top, something like:

# timeout 30

if you change the line to:

timeout 0

then Puppy should start booting immediately when the computer reboots

if there is no timeout line in menu.lst, you can put it in yourself

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#3 Post by Pence »


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#4 Post by info »

I think you have by ınstallation Grub-Buildung-Problem or Your Hardisk is not
formatted for Linux ( xt3 or reiserfs, etc. ) at the Beginn !

Jerry
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#5 Post by Jerry »

Thanks for the advice. It works now. I changed the line

# timeout 30

into:

timeout 0

and puppy starts up automatically.

And this isn't the case:
I think you have by ınstallation Grub-Buildung-Problem or Your Hardisk is not formatted for Linux ( xt3 or reiserfs, etc. ) at the Beginn !
HD is formatted as ext2, but thanks for the tip anyway.

This is really a good forum. Keep up the good work! :)

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