[ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......

[Tyler J. Wagner]

On Thursday 10 June 2010 23:44:29 Alan Bell wrote:
> ah, interesting, this is new information. A fresh install of Lucid does
> not show grub at all unless you hold shift, although thinking about it
> it might have to for dual boot setups. At the top of the grub screen it
> should list the version number of grub. Does it start with 1.98?

Grub2 shows a boot menu if it detects more than one operating system. 
Otherwise it is hidden as you say.  In this case it's detecting his WinXP 
partition and therefore showing a boot menu.

Regards,
Tyler

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