new dual boot install, no dual boot grub menu

[snydley]

I installed PCLINUXOS to a 1 hard drive computer that already had Windows XP on it. I booted up with the LIVE disk first and partitioned the drive, giving PCLOS a 3G swap partition and a 25G ext4 partition for PCLOS. The install went ok, but when I rebooted the computer expecting to find a GRUB dual boot menu there was none, all there is is text, no choice of operating systems it goes directly to PCLOS from "scrolling text" when it boots. I'm kind of an intermediate user of Linux,  I've installed other versions of Linux in dual boot scenarios before and it always came up with a dual boot GRUB menu when I was finished, this time NO. Did I miss something along the way maybe? Was there an option that I didn't select somewhere that gives it a graphic menu? I did select GRUB in the choice when it was given but didn't see any other settings along the way.
I installed GRUB to "sda Western Digital" etc. etc.
Any help is greatly appreciated!!
Thanks,
Snyde

[djohnston]

snydley,

Welcome to the forum. After booting PCLinuxOS, open a terminal and post the results of these commands.

su -
fdisk -l
cat /etc/fstab
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
exit
exit

[Old-Polack]

snydley:

In PCC (Configure Your Computer) under Boot --> Set up boot system be sure the first item is as shown below.