Pressing escape does not show boot menu

[Benjamin Drung]

Binary package hint: grub-pc

GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set to zero and GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET is enabled (default configuration). Pressing escape on startup does not the show boot menu. I hit the escape key multiple times in a second during the complete startup (from pressing the start button tlii xsplash) but without any success.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 30 21:35:39 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: grub-pc (1.97~beta3-1ubuntu6)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: grub2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

[Felix Zielcke (fzielcke)]

Am Mittwoch, den 30.09.2009, 19:45 +0000 schrieb Benjamin Drung:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: grub2
>
> GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set to zero and GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET is
> enabled (default configuration). Pressing escape on startup does not the
> show boot menu. I hit the escape key multiple times in a second during
> the complete startup (from pressing the start button tlii xsplash) but
> without any success.

If you use a hidden timeout of 0 you have to press shift.
ESC can't be detected in this case.

--
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Thanks, that works. Is this behavior documented somewhere?

[Felix Zielcke (fzielcke)]

Am Mittwoch, den 30.09.2009, 20:21 +0000 schrieb Benjamin Drung:
> Thanks, that works. Is this behavior documented somewhere?
>

Here it is
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#grub%20%28/etc/default/grub%29

--
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Thanks. It would be nice if some of the description from the wiki can be found in /etc/default/grub, too.