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prayii

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From: USA

Registered: 2010-11-18

Posts: 8

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GRUB entry is printed before the selection boots

When I start my computer the GRUB menu flashes and then prints the GRUB entry from menu.lst to the screen before booting. So I turn on the computer and I get my BIOS load then GRUB menu flashes on screen for 0.5 seconds then I get

# Arch (0) Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/c5f4b26f-fdd7-4327-9239-f8d37e23f41b ro quiet vga=0x0365 i8042.nomux=1
initrd /kernel26.img

then Arch actually begins booting up.

Here is my whole config file:

# general configuration:
timeout   0
default   0
hiddenmenu
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
#
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
#
#-*

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/c5f4b26f-fdd7-4327-9239-f8d37e23f41b ro quiet vga=0x0365 i8042.nomux=1
initrd /kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/c5f4b26f-fdd7-4327-9239-f8d37e23f41b ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

Is there any way to prevent grub from flashing this text before booting? Or even better yet for grub to be completely hidden?

benmorgan

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-28

Posts: 67

Re: GRUB entry is printed before the selection boots

It is possible that you can do this with GRUB2, but I am not aware that it is possible with GRUB. Could be though, just haven't seen anything.