[bug #40198] Document hold key for showing menu behavior when GRUB_TIMEOUT=0.
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40198 Summary: Document hold key for showing menu behavior when GRUB_TIMEOUT=0. Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: gavenkoa Submitted on: Mon 07 Oct 2013 08:42:27 PM GMT Category: Documentation Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: Action Request Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: other Reproducibility: Every Time Planned Release: None ___ Details: There are a lot of user questions how to switch to menu when timeout is zero: http://askubuntu.com/questions/16042/how-to-get-to-the-grub-menu-at-boot-time-on-a-single-boot-system-not-dual-boot http://askubuntu.com/questions/87409/i-cant-get-grub-menu-to-show-up-during-boot Ubuntu wiki for example have complicated scenario to get menu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Hidden Main solution is to hold Shift (or Esc) button pressed after BIOS actions. I search info grub for hold/shift/esc keywords - and doesn'r find anything relevant. Please add docs about such behavior! ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40198 ___ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
[bug #40198] Document hold key for showing menu behavior when GRUB_TIMEOUT=0.
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #40198 (project grub): Accoring to: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Hide_GRUB_unless_the_Shift_key_is_held_down seems that holding shift is customized by /etc/grub.d/xx-script: if keystatus --shift; then set timeout=-1 ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40198 ___ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
