Thanks for the ideas. But I know that the bootloader is reading the grub.cfg file correctly.
As I showed with the screenshot and original description, the boot menu says "The highlighted entry will be executed automatically in 5s" when GRUB_TIMEOUT=5. When I change this to -1, that message disappears. In both cases, the boot menu flashes on and then immediately disappears before it can even be read. (I used a camera to see it.) The question seems to be why GRUB does not respect the timeout? On 10/18/2018 2:38 AM, Rivard, Matthew T wrote: If you remove the grub.cfg file, the grub boot loader should drop to a command l ine and stop. If it doesn't drop to the command line, then your bootloader is pulling its menu file from a non-standard location, which is why any changes you make are not being reflected. You can then use a linux install disc in recovery mode to remount the drive and rename the grub.cfg file back afterwards if it does drop to command line. -----Original Message----- From: Help-grub [[1]mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [2][email protected] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 5:24 PM To: [3][email protected] Subject: Re: Cannot get GRUB boot menu to display more than 3/100ths seconds Pardon? What should I expect to happen? You are suggesting to basically delete the grub.cfg file by renaming it, right? Will that even allow my system to boot?! On 10/17/2018 8:01 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 11/10/2018 `a 00:28, [[4]1][email protected] a ecrit : Althought I have configured the boot menu timout to 5 seconds, the boot menu only flashes on screen briefly for 3/100ths of a second and disappears. I have tried all sorts of combinations of configuration changes and just cannot seem to do anything to get the boot menu to actually stay on the screen. What is displayed if you rename grub.cfg ? _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [[5]2][email protected] [3][6]https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub References 1. [7]mailto:[email protected] 2. [8]mailto:[email protected] 3. [9]https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [10][email protected] [11]https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. mailto:1][email protected] 5. mailto:2][email protected] 6. https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub 7. mailto:[email protected] 8. mailto:[email protected] 9. https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub 10. mailto:[email protected] 11. https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
