On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 4:56 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,
On 18-09-18 01:12, Chris Murphy wrote:
>
> I've got a Fedora 29 Silverblue installation in a VM. First boot I see
> the GRUB menu, and after that it's hidden. And I can't figure out how
> to unhide it. Boot is failing before I get multiuser login or ssh, so
> extracting information to troubleshoot/bug report isn't possible.
>
> Repeatedly pressing or holding Esc doesn't work.
> Spacebar doesn't work.
> F8 doesn't work.
>
> So now I'm stuck. Yeah, I can reinstall, and before rebooting make
> sure whatever is hiding the GRUB menu is disabled, every time I do
> installations. But the very reason why people were so vocal about this
> feature not happening is exactly this use case.
>
> This is a Fedora 29 host. Fedora 29 (silverblue, maybe it happens with
> Workstation as well) as guest. Virt-manager is what I'm using for
> interacting with the VM.
Can you please retry with a regular F29 workstation install?
I've the feeling that this bug is specific to Silverblue.
Same thing. Whether BIOS or UEFI. Esc, F8, SHIFT do not reveal the
hidden grub menu - whether banging on them or holding them at VM start
time.
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Chris Murphy