Make grub show its menu?

[Nils Kassube]

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.

> 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.

That looks suspiciously like overheating - possibly due to dust covering 
up the ventilation.


Nils