Public bug reported: Using the settings as described in the Grub 2 Manual (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Simple-configuration) which says:
************************** ‘GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT’ Wait this many seconds for a key to be pressed before displaying the menu. If no key is pressed during that time, display the menu for the number of seconds specified in GRUB_TIMEOUT before booting the default entry. We expect that most people who use GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT will want to have GRUB_TIMEOUT set to ‘0’ so that the menu is not displayed at all unless a key is pressed. Unset by default. ************************** Using: GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=5 GRUB_TIMEOUT=0 pressing a key (either shift or escape) during boot does not bring up the menu as expected. In fact the only way to see the menu is to set GRUB_TIMEOUT to greater than 1, which means that the menu is NOT hidden. SYSTEM SETUP: This is on a dual boot system with Lubuntu and Windows 7. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release: 12.04 Codename: precise Linux hoover 3.2.0-26-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 14 16:26:01 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Package: grub2-common Status: install ok installed Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 139 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> Architecture: i386 Source: grub2 Version: 1.99-21ubuntu3.1 Replaces: grub, grub-common (<< 1.99-1), grub-coreboot (<< 1.99-1), grub-efi (<< 1.99-1), grub-efi-amd64 (<< 1.99-1), grub-efi-ia32 (<< 1.99-1), grub-ieee1275 (<< 1.99-1), grub-legacy, grub-linuxbios (<< 1.99-1), grub-pc (<< 1.99-1), grub-yeeloong (<< 1.99-1) Depends: grub-common (= 1.99-21ubuntu3.1), dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info Conflicts: grub (<< 0.97-54), grub-doc (<< 0.97-29ubuntu60), grub-legacy, grub-legacy-doc (<< 0.97-29ubuntu60) Description: GRand Unified Bootloader (common files for version 2) This package contains common files shared by the distinct flavours of GRUB. The files in this package are specific to GRUB 2, and would break GRUB Legacy if installed on the same system. Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ Original-Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers <[email protected]> ** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1019313 Title: GRUB2 Hidden Menu pressing key does not show menu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1019313/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
