Re: dual boot with no current /boot partition

bbxrider wrote:

turns out grub.conf has another parm called 'timeout', 
Yes that's the one!!
the number of
 mine was set to 5 but i didn't have anywhere near 5 secs to
make the choice,
You don't have to make the choice in 5 secs, just hit any key! That should stop the count down, so you have time to select OS or enter the grub interface

or '1', i'm guessing its literally the order that they are listed in the
.conf file

Yep, that sounds right.

hopefully on to bigger and better things 
Good luck, I'm struggling with a LAN and masquerade at the moment.
Mike
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