Grub shows no menu

Hi,

I've still Linpus installed, but have a problem with the 2.6.23.9lw Kernel, someone supplied here on rapidshare. The boot-process stops somewhere and the system freezes. So I like to play around with boot parameter and so on.

I edited the grub.conf and commted out #hiddenmenu and the splash screen. But I still don't get a Bootmenu, as I'am used to it on Debian. After Poweron I get a blank screen and after a while, or when I hit the cursor-down button (not return, it's strange) the kernel begins to boot. I can control which kernel to boot only with the default parameter in grub.conf (anyway I miss the menu.lst file, just creating it is not enough, it's ignored during boot).

How can I make the menu visible? And how can I restore the standard Acer kernel (I screwed it up)?

TIA
Alex

 

Not sure what your grub.conf file looked like originally, but here's the top of mine:
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# 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 (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda14
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=30
### splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
### hiddenmenu

# Pretty colours
color cyan/blue white/green

title Rawhide 2.6.29-0-258 on sda10
root (hd0,9)
kernel /vmlinuz0 ro root=LABEL=Leonidas selinux=0
initrd /initrd0
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For the kernel, try ftp://[email protected]/Aspire_One_Linpus_Linux/Aspire_One_Source/linux-2.6.23.9lw.zip

 

i'd leave in the splash image as this just gives the grub menu the nice backdrop, but as well as commenting out hiddenmenu try removing 'rhgb' and 'quiet' from the kernel line in grub, so it would change from this

Code:

timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Fedora 10 Custom (2.6.29-3.aoa150.fc10.i686)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29-3.aoa150.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=1606aae5-77ef-4a81-ae0b-a26940d6338b vga=0x315 rhgb quiet

to this

Code:

timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Fedora 10 Custom (2.6.29-3.aoa150.fc10.i686)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29-3.aoa150.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=1606aae5-77ef-4a81-ae0b-a26940d6338b vga=0x315

phil