How do I show the Grub menu?

[Jook_roberts]

I have a single boot system so the grub menu does not show. I opened the grub file and change the line that says menu hidden = true to false. and the timeout = 10

I figured that would make it show, but when I booted up it didn't show.

Ultimately all I wanted to do was be able to boot into the recovery option. Is there another way to do that?

[dibl]

Re: How do I show the Grub menu?

You need to follow this guidance to work with Grub 2:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3106368.0


Hint: You are not to edit /boot/grub.cfg.

[Jook_roberts]

Re: How do I show the Grub menu?

I see.
The old Grub 1 way does not work anymore.
Now you edit one file, and run another file to update grub 2.

Unhide instructions are in section 3.

Thanks for the link, dibl.

[Qqmike]

Re: How do I show the Grub menu?

Exactly right Jook_roberts.
And for micro-tuning things, see the link I gave in Section 3 where you are reading (author is drs305). So far, he's covered more details than any other source for tweaking the grub.cfg through /etc/default/grub.

Now, if you should want a totally custom grub.cfg (that you can manually edit), you can have it. See my how-to (or see the example of Separate Grub 2 partition in Section 4). To do so, you have to disable the regular grub.cfg (by removing execute bits), and so you will NOT enjoy any automatic updating that comes with GRUB 2; but, hard-core types CAN enjoy their own manual, custom grub.cfg if they wish. (I would not recommend doing that EXCEPT for possibly two special cases: (1) in a Separate GRUB 2 partition or (2) perhaps where GRUB 2 is put on a flash drive).