On 28 Nov 2025 at 6:51, Terry Hurlbut wrote: From: Terry Hurlbut <[email protected]> Date sent: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 06:51:15 -0500 Subject: How to get to a kernel selection screen at boot To: users <[email protected]> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]>
> Everyone: > > I've mentioned this before, but still don't have an answer that gives > a consistent result. Since I installed F43 on my system - and I mean a > fresh, clean install, overriding old swap and home partitions (I had > my data saved on another drive, so that's unaffected) - booting up > goes to a message that reads: "GRUB boot loader: Welcome to GRUB." > Five seconds later, it goes through its startup routines. (I removed > "rhgb quiet" from the list of boot-up command-level switches). > > Someone suggested I was getting that five-second Welcome screen > because I had only one kernel installed at the time. Well, that was > two weeks ago, and the system has had several updates. And rarely I > /do/ get to a screen listing three kernels to choose from - so I > already have more than one. Think the file you want to check is: # cat /etc/default/grub GRUB_TIMEOUT=15 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)" GRUB_DEFAULT=saved GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=false GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rhgb quiet" GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true" GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE='menu' That is the options that I have. It shows the options for a time. You can also press the ESC key when grub starts to get the menu. Just had a machine I installed 43 on, and changed file to these setting. Some might have exactly which options do what. Compare with what your file has. > > So: where do I find the file that governs whether to just "go with the > latest kernel," and what command do I change, remove, or add? > > FYI, I installed the new KDE Plasma Desktop Edition. Several updates > later, it's been running better than ever - all except for that one > thing. > > -- > Temlakos <[email protected]> > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
