Make grub show its menu?

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 04 May 2015 01:40:40 O. Sinclair wrote:
> 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.

I intended that reply to say

Thanks O Sinclair

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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