My 'patch' to Startup Manager.

[AlbertP]

A fix to /etc/default/grub

This has been wrong in at least Mint 10 and 11.

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

Because quiet and splash are in the wrong line (the LINUX_DEFAULT) Startup Manager is not able to edit them. If it's changed so that the default /etc/default/grub reads this:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet splash"

Startup Manager is working.

[xenopeek]

Ah, I had wondered about this also. Got used to editing the file by hand Would be better for newbies to fix this.

[ASmith]

Here is Grub for my Linux Mint 11 Standard, DVD clean install:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" vga=792"

Are you stating that is a bug/error?

[xenopeek]

Here is Grub for my Linux Mint 11 Standard, DVD clean install:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" vga=792"

Are you stating that is a bug/error?

Well, no. That is why patch is in quotes in the title of this topic The problem is with Startup Manager, the tool with which you can configure your startup parameters through a GUI instead of having to use the command line to edit your configuration file. Startup Manager only sees the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" vga=792" in you case, and not the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" line. It ignores that line. So you can not use Startup Manager to disable quiet or splash. If you merge those settings into GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, the Startup Manager can be used to configure this. That is the "patch".

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX is however used both for normal mode and for recovery mode, while GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT is only used for normal mode. It is preferable to only tweak settings for normal mode and not touch recovery mode settings--so that if you break anything you can still easily boot with recovery mode. But Startup Manager seems to think otherwise

[AlbertP]

I wasn't aware of this.

Then Startup Manager has to be fixed instead of /etc/default/grub.