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bug #40198: Document "hold key for showing menu" behavior when GRUB_TIMEOUT=0.

Submitter:  Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa>
Submitted:  Mon 07 Oct 2013 08:42:27 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Documentation Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Action Request
Status:  Invalid Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name: 
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  other
Release:  Reproducibility:  Every Time
Planned Release:  None

Sun 03 Nov 2013 04:54:08 AM UTC, comment #2: 

keystatus is documented in manual they way how it's used in Ubuntu is Ubuntu-specific and hence its documentation wouldn't belong to upstream manual.

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Group administrator
Mon 07 Oct 2013 09:21:54 PM UTC, comment #1: 

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

Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa>
Mon 07 Oct 2013 08:42:27 PM UTC, original submission:  

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!

Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa>

 

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