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achilletalon

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Registered: 2015-09-22

Posts: 5

No gummiboot menu at boot time [solved]

I'm a happy Arch user for about a year now. I have been using gummiboot as a bootloader for dual boot between arch and windows. In the past week, the menu shown at startup, which allows to choose between e.g. Arch or Windows, has disappeard . It nows directly boots on Arch.

Did any one have that issue ? Any ideas how I can get the menu back ?

Here's the output of /boot/loader/loader.conf

default	arch
timeout 10

I have one entry in /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf

title	Arch Linux
linux	/vmlinuz-linux
initrd	/initramfs-linux.img
options	root=/dev/sda7 rw rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1

This is the output of efibootmgr

BootCurrent: 0014
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0014,000C,0007,0008,0013,0009,000A,000B,000D
Boot0000  Setup
Boot0001  Boot Menu
Boot0002  Diagnostic Splash Screen
Boot0003  Lenovo Diagnostics
Boot0004  Startup Interrupt Menu
Boot0005  Rescue and Recovery
Boot0006  MEBx Hot Key
Boot0007* USB CD
Boot0008* USB FDD
Boot0009* ATA HDD0
Boot000A* ATA HDD1
Boot000B* ATA HDD2
Boot000C* USB HDD
Boot000D* PCI LAN
Boot000E* IDER BOOT CDROM
Boot000F* IDER BOOT Floppy
Boot0010* ATA HDD
Boot0011* ATAPI CD
Boot0012* PCI LAN
Boot0013* Windows Boot Manager
Boot0014* Linux Boot Manager

The timeout is here 0 seconds. Weird ?

It tried, somehow out of despair, a

 gummiboot update

command, which did not change things.

The recent output of

 grep -i gummi /var/log/pacman.log gives 

is a result of that update

[...]
[2015-02-15 11:16] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Copied /usr/lib/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi to /boot/EFI/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi.
[2015-02-15 11:16] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Copied /usr/lib/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi to /boot/EFI/Boot/BOOTX64.EFI.
[2015-02-15 11:16] [PACMAN] upgraded gummiboot (45-1 -> 48-1)

while the other infos date back only from install, a year ago.

I have the feeling that the menu shows very briefly at startup but doesn't stay before Arch starts loading. But I may be mistaking.

Thanks,

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Linux version 4.1.6-1-ARCH
Laptop Lenovo T440s

Last edited by achilletalon (2015-09-24 17:43:40)

jasonwryan

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Re: No gummiboot menu at boot time [solved]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … ws_upgrade

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Chuck Arch Linux

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Registered: 2011-06-23

Posts: 81

Re: No gummiboot menu at boot time [solved]

Same for me happend a couple of day ago after an arch linux upgrade.

Seem like you have to hold space bar to show boot menu from now.

Last edited by Chuck Arch Linux (2015-09-24 01:37:20)

shulamy

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From: israel

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 468

Re: No gummiboot menu at boot time [solved]

from the wiki

timeout – menu timeout in seconds. If this is not set, the menu will only be shown when you hold the space key while booting.

ezik

achilletalon

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Registered: 2015-09-22

Posts: 5

Re: No gummiboot menu at boot time [solved]

As Chuck and ezik pointed out, the spacebar trick works like a charm . The timeout option is however set in loader.conf, so this shouldn't happen. Why does it ?

I didn't upgrade windows at all, so no problem on that side, but thanks for the wiki reminder jasonwryan.

I'll mark this topic as solved.

Last edited by achilletalon (2015-09-24 17:43:05)