[NBLUG/talk] Problems booting Ubuntu 10.04

Aaron Grattafiori aaron at digitalinfinity.net
Fri Jun 4 21:42:01 PDT 2010


"Hold shift, developers changed this from the well-konwn ESC key"... 

Really.. REally grub2 devs?

Whhyyyyyyyyyyyy. Ugh. I don't like to rant but I really hope there
is a good reason for all these grub->grub2 changes.

-Aaron

On 10:47 Fri 04 Jun     , Andrew wrote:
> Steve Bursch wrote on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:16:01 -0700:
> 
> > I have a machine on which I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04.
> [...]
> > Now, the machine fails to boot every time.  With
> > previous versions of Ubuntu, I've had similar problems, and
> > the fix was to add "rootdelay=130" to the kernel entry in the
> > grub menu.  Unfortunately, the grub menu no longer appears;
> > pressing the ESC key has no effect.
> 
> Ubuntu 10.04 uses GRUB 2, which is completely different from the
> old GRUB we all know and love. As it so happens, Kyle will be
> talking on that very subject at the NBLUG meeting on Tuesday.
> But I'm guessing you'd prefer not to wait until then. Well, this
> post in the Ubuntu Forums will get you up to speed with the new
> GRUB:  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275
> 
> To bring up the GRUB menu when booting, hold down the SHIFT key.
> The developers changed this from the well-known ESC key just to
> fsck with everybody. They're laughing at you right now.
> 
> Once the menu comes up, you can edit it the same way you did
> with the old GRUB to add your rootdelay entry. Hopefully, this
> will get you up and running.
> 
> As for making the rootdelay change permanent, I can't help you
> there (yet). GRUB 2's configuration files are completely
> different from the old GRUB. The Forum post may tell you what to
> do, but I haven't read through it yet. It's very long. I'll just
> go to Kyle's talk.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> A.
> 
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