How to get to the GRUB menu at boot-time ?

Question

how do we get grub menu when boot up process? tried by using both shift and E s c keys

Solution

To get into that menu you should simply press shift as soon the BIOS is done, this might need a few tries to get the timing right.

The other option is to edit grub itself for making it permanently appear you can open a terminal (ctrl+alt+t) and edit /etc/default/grub:

sudoedit /etc/default/grub

There you change this line

GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0

to

#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0

After that you need to update your grub bootloader with:

sudo update-grub

Comments

[Videonauth]

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[Alecz]

It only worked for me after commenting GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0