[SOLVED] Grub Updated - Now no Grub Screen?

[dotnetrob]

Was dual booting Mint 21.3 and Windows 11. Finally made the move to remove windows.

Did an sudo update-grub after removing the windows partitions and it removed the windows entries from the grub config.

System boots just fine, but now I have no grub menu. Which I understand, only 1 OS now. But I had used the Advanced options a number of times to get back into my linux environment after I messed up things. I'm still learning... Is there another route to booting to one of the advanced recovery modes when I mess up my linux instance again... or is there a way to get grub menu to show up with just Mint and Advanced options?

[MiZoG]

Press Esc at boot time to bring up Grub menu (this is for a UEFI-capable system which is what you must have since you mentioned dual boot with Win 11)

For a permanent fix:
xed admin:///etc/default/grub
find and edit the line GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden to GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu
and set the line GRUB_TIMEOUT= to your liking. Example GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 will boot you automatically to Linux Mint (or default OS) 5 secs after grub menu appears on your screen.
Save. Execute sudo update-grub in Terminal. Reboot.

[dotnetrob]

Excellent. I was able to get to the menu by hitting Esc. I was also able to add the style/timeout logic to the grub.cfg. Both solutions work great. Decided to leave the change in the grub.cfg. Thanks.


set timeout_style=menu
set timeout=10


Press Esc at boot time to bring up Grub menu (this is for a UEFI-capable system which is what you must have since you mentioned dual boot with Win 11)

For a permanent fix:
xed admin:///etc/default/grub
find and edit the line GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden to GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu
and set the line GRUB_TIMEOUT= to your liking. Example GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 will boot you automatically to Linux Mint (or default OS) 5 secs after grub menu appears on your screen.
Save. Execute sudo update-grub in Terminal. Reboot.