So HERE'S how you get into grub2 if there's no boot menu in Ubuntu Lucid 10.04

By Steven Rosenberg on March 22, 2010 6:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) |

I installed Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid from a daily build yet couldn't boot into my fresh new desktop because I needed to add nomodeset to the grub2 boot line and didn't know how to do that because there was no boot screen visible.

The answer? Not esc but shift. More specifically, here's how to deal with a hidden grub2 boot menu:

Hidden

* No menu entries are displayed. The splash screen, if configured, will be displayed.

* The user can interrupt the boot process and display the menu by holding down the SHIFT key until the menu displays.

* GRUB 2 searches for a depressed SHIFT key signal during boot. If the key is pressed or GRUB 2 cannot determine the status of the key, the menu is displayed.

Do yourself a big favor - read the full Ubuntu Grub2 community page before you try Ubuntu Lucid.