F11: No boot menu
Steven Stern
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Mon Sep 14 23:50:34 UTC 2009
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On 09/14/2009 06:41 PM, lanas wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> F11 is great. So great that I've installed at work for daily use,
> replacing my F8 installation. x86_64 at that.
>
> Anyhow, I have F8 on /dev/sda6 and installed F11 on /dev/sda1. After
> install and full update, there's no boot menu that allows choosing
> between F8 (which is still there on disk) and F11.
>
> A grub.conf file exists with two entries, one for the original F11
> 2.9.29 kernel, and one for the updated 2.9.30 kernel. Even that is not
> shown at boot time. I could add the F8 info to the file, although the
> ones already in there are not offered at boot time.
>
> Is there now a special key sequence to access the once familiar boot
> menu ? If I install F11 on a computer that has Windows (although on a
> different partition) will it still be possible to dual-boot
> Windows/F11 ?
>
Edit /etc/grub.conf and comment out the line "hiddenmenu" and set the
timeout value to something reasonable (like 10 or 15).
- --
Steve
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