ruharvey

Thank you so far for everyone's input on my problem. I was able to get and edit out the 'hiddenmenu' command that I added in the grub.conf file. But unfortunately my system comes to a complete halt during the boot up at 'GRUB'. Do you think that reinstalling grub through the Ubuntu CD would work? And if so, how would I go about doing that?

I did notice before I added the 'hiddenmenu' in the grub.conf file. That everytime I restarted the computer it did have the old kernel selected. But I thought 'what the heck' and added the 'hiddenmenu' command. And that seemed to make things worse not better. So now I am trying to back track and remove the 'hiddenmenu' command I guess you live and learn from your mistakes. I should of been happy with it working and booting from the old kernel.

I have a Ubuntu Live CD that I have booted the server on to try and access the grub.conf files. But i'm not sure where to go or how to access the files on the harddrive from the CD. Can anyone could point me in the right direction?

Thank you for responding so quickly to my post! Greatly appreciated, but now I have a bigger problem now, I think. Well I edited the grub.conf file and added the hiddenmenu like you said and rebooted the computer. Now when it boots up and goes through the text about initializing Intel Boot Agent along with some other Brand Versions. But then it comes to 'Press <Ctrl-E> for BMC Setup within 5 sec.....' and then grub comes in caps letters and just stops and sits there with GRUB and a blinking cursor. Did I edit the file wrong? After I edited the file I hit ':wq' and escaped out of the file. And then closed the terminal and rebooted the computer. Please get back to me when you get a chance danleff. And once again, thank you for the quick response.

Hi everyone, I am trying to edit the grub.conf file. I installed a new version of Linux RedHat onto my Backup Server that I just bought. I made a copy of the original server to load on the new backup server. Everything worked fine and boots up fine. The only problem is that when it boots up it comes up with the splash screen asking if I want to boot up the 27.0.1.EL Kernel or the 20.0.1.EL Kernel. I want it to automatically boot up using the older Kernel without it asking me which Kernel to use, because I will not be at the computer locally to make sure it boots the old Kernel if I ever have to restart the computer. So I am at the grub.conf file, but I am not sure how force it to go to the older kernel. If anyone can help me out I would greatly appreciate it. And if you need any info that I have not posted here, please just let me know. I would like to keep the new kernel as well because I want to have a backup up if the older kernel fails on me. If it would be better and easier to just remove the new kernel, because I want to keep the old kernel, let me know what you think. Here is a look at the grub.conf file: #boot=/dev/sda default=1 timeout=10 splashimage=(hs0,0)/boot/grub/splash/xpm.gz title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-27.0.1.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL.img title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-20.0.1.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.img