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grub2 package

  1. Bug #1227365
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 1227365

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Rebecca Palmer (rebecca-palmer) wrote : Re: grub does not appear when holding down shift key

The original bug (which I no longer have the hardware from) was on BIOS; should the EFI problem be a separate bug?

Does changing the timeout settings to always-show (see above) work on EFI?

> I need the GRUB menu because I need to add 'nomodeset'

There's a GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX parameter in /etc/default/grub that you can use to add that permanently, but given that updates made there only take effect after running 'sudo update-grub', if you're doing this from a liveCD you'll also need to add it directly to the command line (the first one starting with 'linux') in /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

> so the [...] nouveau driver doesn't attempt to drive my modern nvidia card so I can get more than just a blank screen

Your real problem might be bug 1315156: there's a workaround there, but it requires a running system.