Grub Menu at startup

Monkey · Jul 23, 2008

Hi,

just a short question... Has anyone made it, that grub displays a boot-menu at startup?
I added a second menuentry (i compiled my own kernel with umts-support) disabled the splash-screen and the "hiddenmenu" entry, and set the "timeout" to 10 seconds. But all I get is a blank screen...

Any Ideas?

Thanks,
Monkey

egesia · Jul 23, 2008

i got dual boot working regularly with linpus and the grub menu installed by ubuntu.

Monkey · Jul 23, 2008

Hi,

did I get you right? you are using the grub from ubuntu? Because I think I have to compile grub by myself...

joksanen · Jul 31, 2008

Has anyone found a solution to this invisible grub menu problem yet?

I have also disabled the "splashimage" and the "hiddenmenu" entry +set the "timeout" to 10 seconds. I can boot both operating systems if I change the "default" entry in /boot/grub/grub.conf (0=linpus, 1=XP), but I can't see the grub menu on startup.

joksanen · Aug 1, 2008

Ok, I managed to get it to work. I installed grub-0.97-19.i386.rpm (fedora 8) from here. Then I ran grub-install and rebooted.

bove · Aug 6, 2008

I can't install that package as it tells me GRUB is allready installed. I really need to get a real grub running, so I wont have to use recover as soon as I misconfigure Xserver... =D

KGB · Aug 7, 2008

bove said:
I can't install that package as it tells me GRUB is allready installed.

I can confirm that - same here. Seems that several version of AAO Linpus are out there.

Finally I used grub-0.97-33.1.fc8.i386.rpm from the ressource mentioned above and managed to show my boot-menu.

macles · Aug 8, 2008

longrun · Aug 11, 2008

Presss "TAB" key on booting, then show the menu of grub.

litso · Aug 21, 2008

I've managed to get the menu to come up with TAB at boot but is it possible to get it to come up without hitting TAB?

I've spent two nights looking at this and would appreciate any help! I'm a Linux newbie and on a steep learning curve but am hooked.

Cheers.