So we confuse each other? Sorry! I've been on Linux since last century, and on grub since its inception, and usually with more than one OSes on each machine. #GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE had been set to "hidden" since then. A few days ago, I seem to have lost the ability to boot to W10, since no grub menu showed, and on that rather old machine I could select a boot drive, but no boot partition in the BIOS.
Then I learned through askubuntu that the effect of the "hidden" parameter had been changed. Instead of 'show the menu' when more than one OS was accessible through grub, now grub would follow strictly and hide the menu, irrespective of the number of OSes accessible through grub. I was afraid of having lost the W10 partition; the ability to boot to it, spent some hours playing with everything, and in the end I was almost tempted to pull out a W10 DVD to repair the W10 installation. And all, despite of everything in order, only because someone had decided that "hidden" is now supposed to be followed strictly and actually hide the grub menu irrespective. To me this is totally unnecessary and buggy: changing the semantics of an old parameter and thereby deprive everyone who relies on the previous definition from selecting the OS to be booted, is totally unnecessary. Instead 1. A new parameter could have been found, like "strictly_hidden" 2. At (release) upgrade the "hidden" could have been replaced by the safer "menu". Better safe than sorry: better show the menu, even if not desired, than locking users out of their OSes. I hope, this clears it up!? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2080785 Title: Wrong defaults after (deprecated) changes: #GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/2080785/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
