no menu.lst, no menu to select at booting

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:08:27AM +0530, Buggs Bunny wrote:
> However, I have installed Ubuntu LTS 10.04, but I am amazed to see that
> there is no option to select from (while booting)....might be this is the
> default behavior,

No boot menu by default?  Yes, that's default behaviour.  You can hold down
either Shift or Control, IIRC, during boot, to make the menu show up.

> though I have only Ubuntu installed...Well, but when I
> tried at google to show the menu while booting, it showed me to uncomment
> the option:
> 
> #hidemenu
> 
> from the /boot/grub/menu.lst file...Well, but in my case the file
> 'menu.lst' is not there! Amazed to see it.
> 
> Some of the outputs are as follows:
> 
> linuxearth at linuxearth-desktop:~$ ls /boot : http://pastebin.com/JNm7WNX2
> 
> linuxearth at linuxearth-desktop:/boot/grub$ ls /boot/grub :
> http://pastebin.com/3yh7XrhK

There's a file called 'grub.cfg' there, which means you have GRUB2
instead of the old GRUB version 1.

GRUB2 has a different configuration file syntax (hence a different
name).  Generally you change its configuration by editing
/etc/default/grub and running update-grub.  You probably want to
increase GRUB_HIDDENT_TIMEOUT and disable GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET.

Marius Gedminas
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