Where are you grub?
Found nada in search... Want GRUB to appear before linux is launched - but on single boot system it doesn't appear first. What is the key that makes grub appear first? These MUST be one...
TYVM |
You may need to edit grub.cfg for that.
|
Quote:
Even Windows has the F8 key. |
On any system that uses grub, there should be a root-level /boot directory which contains it ... and, its configuration file.
One of the many options of Grub is to omit displaying a boot-time selection menu entirely ... to immediately proceed to a particular selection, without presenting any choice. I surmise that this is what has been done in your case. |
Boot with installation media and edit grub.cfg or whatever else you need to fix. There might be a key, try E.
|
Quote:
|
You need to edit the /etc/default/grub file as explained in detail at the link below about half way down the page. Change it to comment out the two lines below by placing a hash mark at the beginning of the line as shown:
Quote:
|
Quote:
Code:
now if you want to have a menu of options like booting from a previous kernel or in a "safe" mode then there should already be a 3 second countdown if not then as above "/etc/default/grub" and rebuild the bootloader or also edit the grub.conf on the boot partition |
You can't get a terminal? That makes no sense. Mint has an x-based terminal program, although I don't know what they use. It should be listed in the menu somewhere. If you want a full terminal outside the x-windows system, use ctrl-alt-F1 (or any F key other than F7). Ctrl-alt-F7 should get you back to the proper runlevel for x-windows. I think you're trying to go down the wrong road for what you want.
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 01:51 PM. |