Make grub show its menu?

[Nils Kassube]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> I have an install based on ubuntu 10.04-4 LTS, with whatever version
> of grub was used then.
> 
> On boot, the esc key doesn't seem to be the show grub key, so it sails
> right by it and boots the default=0 image.

>From <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#GRUB_vs_GRUB_2>:

| Hold down (right) SHIFT to display the menu during boot.

I suppose the rest of the page is interesting to you as well.


Nils