Why'd they hide the Grub Menu!

[blackpaw]

Grrrr! Today's update broke my X and since it was running on a VM (VirtualBox) I couldn't figure out the key combo to get to a console. No worries, I thought - just reboot into the recovery console. Only no frigging Grub menu! first time I'd actually noticed that.

None of the usual key combo's activated it on startup (F2, F8, Esc). It took me a good half hour of web searching to find out it was the shift key.

2 Things
- if they're going to hide the Grub menu why could they not prominently list the key combo for showing it! Not in the release notes that I could see.

- Why hide it all! I hate this dumbing down of stuff, users don't care if there's a 2 second text menu on boot and once in a while its *really* useful. Just like disabling restarting X via Ctrl-BkSpc - no one was actually complaining about that but Ubuntu decided we needed to be protected from ourselves.

[The Liquidator]

Re: Why'd they hide the Grub Menu!

Hi

My understanding is that the grub menu only appears by default if there is more than 1 OS involved, so if you are dual-booting you will see it, but not if you are only using kubuntu. I assume the latter applies to your VM environment, and the former to your "real" installation, which is why you've only just seen it. The logic I suppose is that if you only have 1 OS, you would only need to actually see grub if you need to diagnose/fix something (which is of course exactly what happened ).

IIRC they changed to the shift key when 9.10 came out. I don't know why but they just did.

[blackpaw]

Re: Why'd they hide the Grub Menu!

That makes sense, I always do have dual boot running on my actual Pc, though its differing versions of Linux rather than windows


Would have been an easier recovery if I had the sense to take a snapshot


Thanks.