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panosdk

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Registered: 2015-12-26

Posts: 6

Messed grub2 up. Please help.

I have two discs on my computer. One has the win partition. The other has a linux partition and a partition with free space.I installed grub on sda but grub doesnt show up in the start screen. It just boots up straight to q4os. I tried update-grub2 and grub finds windows partition. But i still dont see a grub start screen. What did i do wrong here? Thanks in advance.

(sda1 = windows first disk,s db1 =second disk free space partition)

Last edited by panosdk (2016-04-29 18:29)

Dai_trying

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From: UK

Registered: 2015-12-14

Posts: 2,989

Re: Messed grub2 up. Please help.

sorry deleted stupid my question

You may have set the timeout for grub too quick, you can edit the file /etc/default/grub and change the line that begins

GRUB_TIMEOUT=

to be greater I'd say 10 should give you plenty of chance to see the menu.
You will also need to run

sudo update-grub

to update the grub information.

Last edited by Dai_trying (2016-04-29 19:00)

panosdk

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Registered: 2015-12-26

Posts: 6

Re: Messed grub2 up. Please help.

The problem was the GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE= that had the value hidden by default. I looked up on google and it supposed to have the  menu value to properly show grub. Changed it, rebooted and everything works fine. Thanks for your reply Dai_trying

Dai_trying

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From: UK

Registered: 2015-12-14

Posts: 2,989

Re: Messed grub2 up. Please help.

You are welcome, I'm glad you got it sorted