In Mint Cinnamon 17.1, every time I reboot, I get an option in GRUB to boot into recovery mode. I have to then manually select normal (not recovery mode) booting, after which I get to the regular Cinnamon desktop. This started happening after the computer froze one time and I had to power it off, but it happens every time I reboot now. Bottom line: on reboot, I need to go through an extra, unnecessary step of selecting normal, rather than recovery, mode. Does anyone know how to get rid of this recovery mode option in GRUB?

Grub should remember which entry you select across reboots. In your case it doesn't save it anymore.

Do you have the following in /etc/default/grub:

The entry in grub2 which is booted is the one show in the /etc/default/grub file on the first line:

The entry above would boot the first "menuentry" line in the grub.cfg file. I don't know why that would have changed to the recovery option. Simply count down the menuentry lines to the one you want and put that number in the /etc/default/grub file. Count starts at zero not one, and run update-grub after making the change.

Thanks for the responses, guys! However, I think maybe I didn't explain my problem well. Normal (not recovery) is the first boot option listed in Grub. The problem is that the boot process stops at the Grub screen and makes me manually select (by pressing enter) the first option, which is normal boot mode. Of course, what it should do is boot directly into normal boot mode and bring up the Cinnamon desktop and graphical login screen.

(Incidentally, I did check and confirm that GRUB_DEFAULT is set to 0, which is the normal, not recovery, menuentry in grub.cfg.)

Any thoughts?

Never mind! It has just now inexplicably stopped doing it, and is now booting directly to the graphical login screen and doesn't stop at the Grub boot menu any more. Not sure why, but it's all good. Thanks for your responses.

I reccomend that you run fsck on your hardrives and memtest on your ram. You could have some faulty sectors on your filesystem causing some corruptions

Thanks for the suggestion, Ugika. I'll do that. Don't want it to break.