Re: Cannot get GRUB boot menu to display more than 3/100ths seconds

[Pascal Hambourg]

Please could you avoid top-posting ? It makes interleaved reply difficult.

Le 18/10/2018 à 03:04, address@hidden a écrit :
>     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?

Maybe my proposal will provide some unexpected information.

>     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.

No need to boot from another media. Just load the grub.cfg.renamed (or 
whatever name you gave it) at the grub> prompt with the following command :

configfile $prefix/grub.cfg.renamed

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> Subject: Re: Cannot get GRUB boot menu to display more than 3/100ths seconds
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>     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, address@hidden 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 ?
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