GRUB2 menu under Ubuntu

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

  On 06/19/2010 06:59 AM, edwardp-mh2Nk+tgbQM at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Due to a video issue on a laptop, I had to reinstall Xubuntu (Ubuntu
> with XFCE desktop), because as root (sudo), it would not let me delete
> the directory which had the personalizations (directory not empty).
> Deleting that directory likely would have fixed the problem.
>
> Because this is the only OS installed on the laptop, the GRUB2 menu does
> not appear when the laptop is powered on, I believe the default number
> of seconds was set to zero.  On other systems where it is dual-boot with
> Windows, the menu appears for 10 seconds before booting into Xubuntu by
> default.
>
> Does GRUB2 have a file that can be edited to force the menu to appear
> for the same 10 seconds on the laptop?  Since the menu did not appear,
> the laptop could not be booted into recovery mode, which might have also
> fixed the video issue (reconfigured X).  (FWIW, the video is detected as
> an ATi Radeon chip and I'm sure there have been known issues with ATi
> and Linux.)
Yes. It is in /boot/grup and called either menu.lst or grub.conf.
A couple of things in the file:
1. Comment out hiddenmenu
2. Change your timeout to a value you are comfortable with, such as 
timeout=8.
Another thing I like to do is to change the quiet kernel parameter to 
verbose.



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