Did you perhaps upgrade from an early version of grub2? This is probably caused by an incorrect /etc/default/grub file. The current default looks like this:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
... but if instead you had:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet splash"
... then you'd find those options added to recovery mode as well as normal mode.
Did you perhaps upgrade from an early version of grub2? This is probably caused by an incorrect /etc/default/grub file. The current default looks like this:
GRUB_ CMDLINE_ LINUX_DEFAULT= "quiet splash"
... but if instead you had:
GRUB_ CMDLINE_ LINUX=" quiet splash"
... then you'd find those options added to recovery mode as well as normal mode.