nixCraft

I have a triple boot desktop with Windows Server 2008 (hd1), Ubuntu Hardy (hd2) & FreeBSD 7 (hd3) on three separate HDDs, with Ubuntu being the default OS and GRUB the boot loader.

I recently upgraded to Windows Server 2008 from 2003, and as I anticipated, Windows overwrote the GRUB entry in MBR of the first disk, which happens to be the disk where Windows is installed.

After upgrading, when I rebooted the system, as expected GRUB menu was gone and only Windows Boot manager showed up with the display options.

I restored GRUB by using Knoppix Live CD. But now, another, if you may call problem or an irritating scenario shows up every time I boot into any of the OSs...and that is that immediately after I select the OS to boot into, and before the boot process of that OS starts, the corresponding entry for the same OS in the menu.lst file gets displayed on the screen...like when I boot into Ubuntu, I see the following message on the screen:

Booting into Ubuntu....
root (hd1,0)
root /vmlinuz
default...

and so on before I see the Ubuntu splash screen and the progress bar showing the boot process.

This kind of message is also displayed when I choose to boot into other OSs. Like if I choose Windows Server, before the Windows boot loader gets displayed, I see the corresponding menu.lst entry for windows, and same with FreeBSD 7.

I was wondering if there is a way of stopping these messages from being displayed. I would really appreciate any insight forum members might be able to offer into resolving this issue.

Here's my menu.lst file:

Also, just to be clear...I can successfully boot into any of the three OSs.

Thanks!