[Bug 425979] Re: Holding shift fails to display grub2 menu

[Jani Uusitalo]

Ah, it seems I am able to bring up the menu 100 % reliably on the
M4A78-EM as well by hitting and holding the shift *immediately after
firmware initialization screens* (Asus' boot graphic and ATA Security
eXtension). So holding shift from power-up or from the boot graphic
screen won't work in this setup, but seems to work with others (such as
my FS laptop). I'd expect it to work from power-up consistently across
different setups.

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Title:
  Holding shift fails to display grub2 menu

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub2

  Grub2 has switched away from a minimum 1 second delay to hit enter, in
  preference to simply holding down shift during the boot sequence.
  However, this behaviour doesn't work on all machines.

  Further, many users will only learn this after their machine fails to
  boot normally, leaving them unable to boot at all without outside
  assistance.

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