Grub "issue"
Hello, big linux noob here. I wanted to hide my grub and since configure-grub didn't work anymore, I edited the etc/default/grub from:
to:
While this has achieved what I wanted, I can't seem to be able to open up Grub if I press or hold press ESC during boot. It shows a bunch of kernel messages before eventually loading the OS. Spam pressing ESC during boot occasionally seems to increase the loop of messages (before eventually still loading the OS). Anything I've done wrong here? 🙏
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update your install
then run
ujust configure-grub
also the timeout you added is on 2 seconds
so you have 2 seconds to press ESC at the right timeI updated via the System Update, restarted, but still can't use configure-grub
show your
rpm-ostree status
there should be an update for the 9th
oh wait nvm im dumb
im on testing 🤣
either way either you should increase the hidden timeout to maybe 3 or just remove it and wait for when testing is merged into main
damn, so glad you said this, I was searching this discord for answers and found your reply to someone and thought I was going insane for not having the option back again XD
I've set hidden timeout to 10 just for testing and I still can't seem to get grub to show up by the way
Try Shift-L during startup instead of Esc. Grub doesn't show up for me at all during startup no matter the settings. But hitting Shift-L works.
thanks, will try!
still no dice haha
for some reason i almost never get grub on reboots but do after shutdown
@HikariKnight sorry for the ping but even on the latest stable I still can't seem to make grub show when pressing escape XD
try hold left shift when booting maybe
also
ujust configure-grub got added back in latest stable, so you can just make it always show thereI noticed, it's set to 1 as per the default setting, but mostly just reporting how ESC doesn't seem to do it if you manually want to pull it up on boot
well i just booted my machine so give me a sec to try
same
It does show up with ESC but the timer keeps going
So you need to ESC and use arrow keys up and down
And if you spam press ESC you get to this
Just type
normal press enter and immediately up or down arrow as the timer is 3 secondsheld ESC and still no grub, just kernel
Don't hold
Repeatedly press
that just makes the kernel go in and out instead XD
How early do you hold it?
this time I started spamming it as soon as the bios popped up
I just tried to hold and that works too huh TIL
Anyways you want to hold or press repeatedly as soon as the PC turns on.
Some monitors are slow and don't turn on until you're past the bootloader
Mine is luckily not slow
adding this for context since it might not be the same for you, I have both bazzite and windows on their separate nvme, current boot order in bios is Fedora/Bazzite of course
yeah in your case i would use the ujust to make it always show
no idea why it wont show for you
it is indeed weird, I assume there's no log for this kind of thing?
with how little I've been spending time in WIndows I can't say I'm too bothered, but just wanted to access it in case anything goes sideways, though I understand that's the case anyway by default
Nope I don't think grub writes logs.
Just make grub always show and then
ujust regenerate-grub to have it re-detect windows🫰
thanks for the help either way!
I tried doing this myself, and it didn't work. Do I need to
ujust regenrate-grub to apply it?not me who wrote it, so try
no dice
escape does work tho