Thanks Steve, Nope didn't make it to the clinic and no I had not figured out just how simple this part of the fix was. My grub cfg has been tweaked and tested. Yea so next time this happens ( optimistic aren't I ) it should be much easier to recover from.
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Steve Beattie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:32:16PM -0700, Kirk Goins wrote: > > Still having a problem finding the actual parm(s) to set so grub will > pause > > a few seconds on boot before starting the default. Maybe I will bring it > to > > the clinic next weekend. > > I don't know if you got this sorted out at the clinic or not, but > the file to adjust for this is /etc/default/grub, specifically the > GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET and GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT settings. If you wish > to see the menu, comment those lines out and adjust the GRUB_TIMEOUT > setting to be how many seconds you wish it to show the menu before > booting into the default. For example, I routinely set my config like so > > #GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 > #GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true > GRUB_TIMEOUT=10 > > to get the menu displayed for 10 seconds before booting into the default > kernel. > > Once you're done editing /etc/default/grub, you'll need to run > update-grub as root (e.g. via sudo) for configuration files in > /boot/grub to be regenerated. > > The way the boot setup is supposed to work with grub2, you should > also be able to hold the Shift key down when booting to get the grub > menu to display when grub is configured to not show it by default. > > You can find more information on the settings available in > /etc/default/grub at > > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#A.2BAC8-etc.2BAC8-default.2BAC8-grub_.28file.29 > > or by running > > info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration' > > -- > Steve Beattie > <[email protected]> > http://NxNW.org/~steve/ > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > -- Kirk _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
