On Monday 04 May 2015 05:04:04 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 03.05.15 20:51, Gene Heskett wrote: > > So, ok, I'll byte. What is the magic keyboard incantation that will > > allow the grub boot menu to be seen? It goes sailing right on by > > it. > > It's a while since I stuffed around with grub, but "info grub" says > that it will boot immediately without displaying the menu, if > GRUB_TIMEOUT is set to zero. Anything like that in your > /etc/default/grub? > > I also have a note from a prior encounter, saying: "SHIFT is a > suitable boot interrupt, causing the menu to be displayed, even if > GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0" Info seems to concur that it can also be > responsible for booting like a sneak attack. > > Both GRUB_TIMEOUT and GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT should be sought in the > editable config /etc/default/grub, not /boot/grub/grub.cfg, generated > by update-grub.
There was GRUB_TIMEOUT = 0, GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=10, and GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true in that file. GRUB_TIMEOUT=10 now, and the last line I'll consult the grub man pages on. Except exactly none of this stuff is mentioned in any man page for the various grub utilities. The man pages are so incomplete that they don't even include "see also" lines referencing the other grub related bits & pieces. Dammit, this isn't Microsoft, write the man pages already people. I even went so far as to cd /usr/share/man/man1 zcat * |grep HIDDEN cd .../man8 zcat * |grep HIDDEN And got exactly zero results. How the hell are any of us supposed to figure this out? Thanks Erik Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
