I’m not sure if this is a question as much as a feature request, but it’s one of the first things I felt I should bring up after taking my first look at Manjaro. Note that I only tested the OS on VirtualBox for the time being: I don’t know if the grub2 setup differs when installing on a real machine…

[image] [Dual Boot] Can't get into grub but straightly boot Manjaro after updating Manjaro Support Edit the file /etc/default/grub and change the following line… arrow_down GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden … into… arrow_down GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu Also make sure you add the …

It’s under “Advanced Options”. It will bring up another menu screen to let you choose which kernel to boot with. EDIT: I just realized that was someone else’s screenshot, not your own. :yum: I was wondering if you mistook the “Advanced Options” menu entry.

[image] MirceaKitsune: you can’t choose which one to boot Of course you can. Tap Esc or hold Shift on boot to show the GRUB menu. By default GRUB is hidden unless there is more than one boot entry to choose from. Change GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden to GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu. [image] Mircea…

Thanks: Works exactly as intended with this change. Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu alone suffices, the other change to /etc/default/grub didn’t seem to be necessary.

Holding shift doesn’t appear to work but pressing esc does (at least on VBox). Now that I’m aware of this solution I don’t need to change the default grub configuration any more. I was going to ask why GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu isn’t used by default and suggest changing that, but I figure there was a …

If you want to make GRUB show up, even if you only have one kernel installed, try this (as root) grub2-editenv - unset menu_auto_hide grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Thanks, I’ll note this possibility as well. I no longer plan on changing it now though: When I made this thread I wasn’t aware you could press esc to show this menu, I thought it simply wasn’t generated by default at all… now that I know how to access it I’m happy with the vanilla setup for grub …

Show grub options on boot, offering kernel selector

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Aragorn 4 April 2021 22:43 3