View Full Version : [ubuntu] How do I auto-run and skip Grub 1.99 menu after upgrade?
scooby1970
April 30th, 2011, 10:25 AM
This seems to be a strange problem, and I have searched high and low for answers. Since Ubuntu 10.04 I have been upgrading via LiveCD and had no problems, however after an upgrade to 11.04 I now have Grub 1.99 giving me a list of versions to chose from before the OS loads.
Now, call me fussy, but I don't want this, I just want to turn on my PC and go straight into Ubuntu as it always has done.
I have tried various fixes such as looking for old Kernals in Package Manager, but no old kernals show up! Same for Ubuntu-Tweak, nothing shows up when I click on clean kernals.
There has to be a soloution to this!!! Can someone please help me?
Thank you in advance.
Mark
dino99
April 30th, 2011, 10:32 AM
you might think about the day you will get trouble with this setting :(without countdown timer from /etc/default/grub)
- broken kernel
- recovery mode not easily available
well do it as you like
scooby1970
April 30th, 2011, 10:36 AM
you might think about the day you will get trouble with this setting :(without countdown timer from /etc/default/grub)
- broken kernel
- recovery mode not easily available
well do it as you like
So you're saying it's better to have the option of recovery mode and other Kernals etc?
I have tried Startup Manager to give it a 3 second on-screen presense, but that does not work either, even if that worked I would be happy with that.
Mark
dino99
April 30th, 2011, 10:39 AM
its my point of view and experience of course, but what a difference 3 seconds makes in your life by the way ?
scooby1970
April 30th, 2011, 10:47 AM
Is there a way to disable the grub menu though??? I've tried everything I can find so far.
:) Mark
scooby1970
April 30th, 2011, 06:53 PM
I've been trying to remove Grub from asking me which version all day, tried everything in my original post and nothing. Can anyone suggest any help please?
:) Mark
jonathansfl
January 24th, 2012, 04:55 PM
I'm using 11.04
I have this same problem and no one answered this thread. I'm setting Ubuntu up for clients and I DONT WANT THEM TO SEE THE GRUB MENU. I do care about the 3 seconds, but more importantly i don't want them screwing it up by clicking something. Furthermore, they don't have keyboards, they have tabletPCs with touchscreens, so we have to connect a keyboard just to click Enter to get past this damn menu.
How can i hide this grub menu? I too have tried the Startup-Manager. No effect. I used Terminal and changed the /etc/default/grub file parameters to GRUB_TIMEOUT=0 and GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0. I even added GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true to try and fix this nonsense.
How can we skip the grub menu?
Canaryguy
January 26th, 2012, 07:07 PM
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 and I'm also trying to find a solution for this. I haven't had luck so far but probably the solution is very easy. I also just want to avoid de grub menu and to see it only when I need it via keeping Shift pressed while restarting the computer.
Liber81
December 15th, 2012, 08:32 PM
Hi,
I had exactly the same problem. I had to edit "config.cfg" manually, it means change all entries with "timeout=-1" to "timeout=0".
This is not safe procedure, but it works for me and it did not harm my system (Linux Mint 13 64bit).
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