[Solved] Grub2 Timeout 30 seconds after today's update

[joaquimbarreto]

In a terminal window run:

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sudo sed -i "/recordfail_broken=/{s/1/0/}" /etc/grub.d/00_header

followed by

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sudo update-grub

The reason for the change is that the maintainer at Ubuntu doesn't know when to press Shift during boot and only know to bring up the menu via Ctrl+Alt+Del, which won't work with GRUB installed to an LVM partition, so they thought they'd just force 30 seconds of menu on everyone using EFI + LVM. Genius...!

Thank you, this worked for me.

[fleamour]

Everybody who has checked the LVM box (in Ubiquity) during installation of Mint: are you sure that you had a good reason for doing that? If not, you shouldn't have checked that box at all.

In most cases, LVM is just an unnecessary complication with no advantages at all, which can cause serious trouble.

LVM is the future? Surely?!? Live resizing on supported file systems is a pretty good advantage. However with one root partition as default, maybe less so! I never did see the need for separate /home. To me /home & root work in tandem & side hopping to openSUSE while preserving my precious /home partition will not help anyone....

[LanceM]

fleamour wrote "LVM is the future? Surely?!?"
Btrfs already has instant snapshots and online resizing. I've had great success with it.

[encodedream]

I have installed 19.1 twice on the same machine on btrfs. First time in BIOS mode, no problem. Second time in UEFI mode: grub2 delay is fixed at 30 seconds.

After taking a quick look at

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/etc/grub.d/00_header

it appears that their is a check for writeability, which looks at the file system type. It is a function called check_writable. The non writeable file systems are on line 125:

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btrfs | cpiofs | newc | odc | romfs | squash4 | tarfs | zfs

I'm using BTRFS as my root file system, and I'm curious if this affects the ability for Grub to remember what OS was last used? The Grub data is stored on the EFI System partition, which is FAT32, so it is totally writeable.

The fix outlined here tells Grub that the recordfail is not broken, i'm wondering if there should be an update submitted to the upstream project to fix the bug they introduced.

Looking more into the bug, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1800722, as others have mentioned here it is a fix for EFI+LVM, but when you aren't using LVM, but are using EFI you're forced into this scenario, as is pointed out here, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... omments/16.

The forced menu is due to the check for EFI that was added, which overrides any user configurations, timeout_style=menu.

[pioruns]

Any fix for this?

In a terminal window run:

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sudo sed -i "/recordfail_broken=/{s/1/0/}" /etc/grub.d/00_header

followed by

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sudo update-grub

The reason for the change is that the maintainer at Ubuntu doesn't know when to press Shift during boot and only know to bring up the menu via Ctrl+Alt+Del, which won't work with GRUB installed to an LVM partition, so they thought they'd just force 30 seconds of menu on everyone using EFI + LVM. Genius...!

This solution doesn't work on Linux Mint 20 x86_64 MATE. UEFI enabled. Partitions:

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$ mount |grep sda
/dev/sda2 on / type btrfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=257,subvol=/@)
/dev/sda2 on /home type btrfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=258,subvol=/@home)
/dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)

[mr_raider]

Same issue with btrfs. Grub can't write the btrfs boot partition so you end up with this.

Add the line

GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT=5

To /etc/default/grub


Then run update-grub

[JayJay_seal]

Any fix for this?

In a terminal window run:

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sudo sed -i "/recordfail_broken=/{s/1/0/}" /etc/grub.d/00_header

followed by

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sudo update-grub

Thank you, this solved my issue. and saves me a few seconds of boot time

[numgi5]

In a terminal window run:

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sudo sed -i "/recordfail_broken=/{s/1/0/}" /etc/grub.d/00_header

followed by

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sudo -s update-grub

The reason for the change is that the maintainer at Ubuntu doesn't know when to press Shift during boot and only know to bring up the menu via Ctrl+Alt+Del, which won't work with GRUB installed to an LVM partition, so they thought they'd just force 30 seconds of menu on everyone using EFI + LVM. Genius...!

Wow thank you for this!! Been scratching my head for hours as to why all my settings in grub file are being ignored and stuck with 30 second timer. Tried everything until I found your post, now I can show/hide the menu again, set a timeout, etc. I'm running Cinnamon 20.3 on a EFI based 2008 iMac using BTRFS in case that matters. Thanks again!