[Bug 428443] Re: There should be a way to hide the menu in os-prober

[Simon Richard]

I just lose half an hour trying to apply what the documentation says to
have my menu hidden untill I press a key on boot. All because of this
really simple bug which have been reported more than two years ago.
PLEASE FIX IT IN 12.04.

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Title:
  There should be a way to hide the menu in os-prober

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub2

  In some cases, it might be desirable to hide the boot menu even if
  other OS are discovered. For instance in Wubi case, the grub menu is
  shown after the windows one, so it becomes confusing.

  GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT could be used to specify that the menu has to be
  hidden or possibly some other variable could be used to that effect.

  --- 30_os-prober.orig	2009-09-12 11:12:24.000000000 +0100
  +++ 30_os-prober	2009-09-12 11:32:57.000000000 +0100
  @@ -25,8 +25,7 @@
   found_other_os=
   
   adjust_timeout () {
  -  if [ "x${found_other_os}" = "x" ] ; then
  -    if [ "x${GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT}" != "x" ] ; then
  +  if [ "x${found_other_os}" = "x" ] || [ "x${GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT}" != "x" ] ; then
         if [ "x${GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET}" = "xtrue" ] ; then
   	verbose=
         else
  @@ -54,7 +53,6 @@
   fi
   EOF
         fi
  -    fi
     fi
   }

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