Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
13.02.2018 17:15, Peter Suetterlin пишет:
OK, so press SHIFT during boot and ..... nothing, it just boots the default entry without even showing the menu. Also tried 't' (which is sometimes requested to press, too). No luck either, so I eventually gave up. So I changed the two timeout values to 2, and ran the grub2-mkconfig program.
I suppose you know that grub2-mkconfig by itself just prints output to standard output.
Yes, sure. just too lazy to type (4-finger-typist...)
You should not be using numbers anyway - grub2 configuration is dynamic and numbers may change at runtime (or should I call it boot time?). You should be using menu entry ID.
Noted. But is there a utility to determine those? I don't care *what* the number is, but I need to know which to use ;^>
Why is SHIFT not working?
SHIFT is Ubuntu (or may be Debian in general) specific. There is no special SHIFT handling upstream and never was in openSUSE, and it works in legacy BIOS only anyway.
OK, so this is indeed new to me (doesn't say much, I know). Well appreciated.
Why does it ignore TIMEOUT settings?
Show output of
grub2-editenv - list
pay attention to spaces.
Yes, had looked at that already lux:~ # grub2-editenv - list env_block=512+1 saved_entry=openSUSE Tumbleweed Not much, is it? I think it's related to os-prober (see other reply in the thread), but didn't yet find time to look at it, due to that nvidia problem.
Why are manpages close to useless?
Because nobody undertook efforts to write useful man pages?
Jah well. In that case it's probably because GNU prefers info over man, so they are minimalistic. But e.g. 'man grub2-emu' doesn't even give an idea what it is good for.... The info files are quite good, I agree, but reading them in the console of a not-properly-booting system is not really fun. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org