<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Colin Law <<a href="mailto:clanlaw@gmail.com" target="_blank">clanlaw@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 22 October 2015 at 22:07, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <<a href="mailto:garyartista@gmail.com">garyartista@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Colin Law <<a href="mailto:clanlaw@gmail.com">clanlaw@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> On 22 October 2015 at 18:43, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <<a href="mailto:garyartista@gmail.com">garyartista@gmail.com</a>> >> wrote: >> > Sometimes my touchscreen does not work and a few other issues, so I >> > thought >> > I'd load up an earlier kernel. Ubuntu 14 is my only operating system so >> > you >> > should be able to choose other kernels (I have at least 1 other >> > installed) >> > by holding the shift key down. Nada. >> > >> > >> > <a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/87409/i-cant-get-grub-menu-to-show-up-during-boot" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://askubuntu.com/questions/87409/i-cant-get-grub-menu-to-show-up-during-boot</a> >> > >> > There are some remedies here. I wonder if anyone here has a suggestion. >> >> So which of those have you tried? In particular what have you got in >> /etc/default/grub. Maybe copy/paste it here. > > > Not tried any, looking for advice first. OK, I assumed that you had looked there and done a bit of googling to see what it all means but could not get it to work. See [1] for a description of what the settings do I think that if you change GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 to GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT= Then it should show the boot menu for 10 seconds (as you have GRUB_TIMEOUT set to that). I say 'think' because actually I just have that line commented out, but I see from the wiki page that the recommended suggestion is to set it to blank. Don't forget to run sudo update-grub after saving the file. [1] <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Setup#Configuring_GRUB_2" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Setup#Configuring_GRUB_2</a> Colin <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> > > # If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update > # /boot/grub/grub.cfg. > # For full documentation of the options in this file, see: > # info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration' > > GRUB_DEFAULT=0 > GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 > GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true > GRUB_TIMEOUT=10 > GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian` > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" > > # Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs > # This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains > # the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...) > #GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef" > > # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only) > #GRUB_TERMINAL=console > > # The resolution used on graphical terminal > # note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE > # you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo' > #GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480 > > # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to > Linux > #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true > > # Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries > #GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true" > > # Uncomment to get a beep at grub start > #GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1" > > garyk > </div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> -- > ubuntu-users mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> > -- </div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>that worked, thanks. </div></div> </div></div>