Make grub show its menu?

[O. Sinclair]

On 04/05/2015 07:25, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> 
> On Monday 04 May 2015 00:32:41 Nils Kassube wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Thank you Nils.  I'll see if I can run memtest+ 2 or 3 cycles tomorrow.
> 
> The symptoms are a random freeze, with stationary video, no mouse & no 
> response to keyboard.  ssh -Y from here dead, any nfs shares from there 
> that go away lock up the rest of the network that might be playnig 
> client.  Another supposedly identical machine, running the same install 
> cd, runs fine for months at a time if no power glitches.  Only recourse 
> is the reset button.
> 
> But why does it get moved around?  Do they flip a coin or ??
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> 
You may simply have a hardware error. I have had 2 laptops with harddisk
failure this year. No fun but it happens.