holding shift key down does not reveal GRUB menu (edit) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1880169
I'm not sure when this regression appeared. It was working with F32 VM's and I think also with some earlier F33 VMs.
Anyway, right now it's not working for me with either virt-manager or baremetal (sample size of one each).
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:14 PM Chris Murphy lists@colorremedies.com wrote:
holding shift key down does not reveal GRUB menu (edit) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1880169
I'm not sure when this regression appeared. It was working with F32 VM's and I think also with some earlier F33 VMs.
Anyway, right now it's not working for me with either virt-manager or baremetal (sample size of one each).
What about quickly pressing F8? On my baremetal, Shift doesn't work either. But as I remember, many BIOSes simply ignore keys which are pressed down during initialization, to prevent "stuck keys". That's why there are two different key options to display GRUB.
In order to bring up the boot menu in Grub2 you press any key. This is a choice made after BIOS boot selection (if on EFI/UEFI BIOS). I am running Silverblue on F33 Rawhide compose 33.20200914.n.0 (2020-09-14T08:05:11Z) (915,916, and 917 won't boot) and it works on my bare metal setup.
Regards, Stephen
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 08:29, Kamil Paral kparal@redhat.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:14 PM Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com mailto:lists@colorremedies.com> wrote:
holding shift key down does not reveal GRUB menu (edit) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1880169
I'm not sure when this regression appeared. It was working with F32 VM's and I think also with some earlier F33 VMs.
Anyway, right now it's not working for me with either virt-manager or baremetal (sample size of one each).
What about quickly pressing F8? On my baremetal, Shift doesn't work either. But as I remember, many BIOSes simply ignore keys which are pressed down during initialization, to prevent "stuck keys". That's why there are two different key options to display GRUB.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 12:30 AM Kamil Paral kparal@redhat.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:14 PM Chris Murphy lists@colorremedies.com wrote:
holding shift key down does not reveal GRUB menu (edit) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1880169
I'm not sure when this regression appeared. It was working with F32 VM's and I think also with some earlier F33 VMs.
Anyway, right now it's not working for me with either virt-manager or baremetal (sample size of one each).
What about quickly pressing F8? On my baremetal, Shift doesn't work either. But as I remember, many BIOSes simply ignore keys which are pressed down during initialization, to prevent "stuck keys". That's why there are two different key options to display GRUB.
Using virt-manager, F8 increases the sound on my laptop. For whatever reason it never passes through to the VM only. And two of three computers F8 is reserved for the firmware.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 3:10 PM Chris Murphy lists@colorremedies.com wrote:
Using virt-manager, F8 increases the sound on my laptop.
Then it's not F8 :D Either configure your keyboard (in BIOS, in runtime) to use Fx keys instead of multimedia keys, or pressing Fn+F8 should actually send F8, at least that's how most systems do it.
For whatever reason it never passes through to the VM only. And two of three computers F8 is reserved for the firmware.
You have to hit it at the right moment, which can be very tricky :-/
Stephen says you can hit any key to make GRUB show, I couldn't verify that yet.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 9:10 AM Kamil Paral kparal@redhat.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 3:10 PM Chris Murphy lists@colorremedies.com wrote:
Using virt-manager, F8 increases the sound on my laptop.
Then it's not F8 :D Either configure your keyboard (in BIOS, in runtime) to use Fx keys instead of multimedia keys, or pressing Fn+F8 should actually send F8, at least that's how most systems do it.
:facepalm: you're right. I only ever press F8/volume+ key without pressing Fn key too. When I use Fn+F8 so far I'm consistently getting a grub menu (this is virt-manager).
For whatever reason it never passes through to the VM only. And two of three computers F8 is reserved for the firmware.
You have to hit it at the right moment, which can be very tricky :-/
The hardware case is different. They seem to accept F8 key alone or in combination with Fn key as F8. So if F8 key is pressed, for sure the firmware menu comes up. So shift needs to work for grub - or something. Spacebar. Tab. Anything. But this is why I gave up on menu autohide a long time ago and just unset autohide on baremetal machines.
Stephen says you can hit any key to make GRUB show, I couldn't verify that yet.
I'm beginning to think it depends on specific combinations of things... including the phase of the moon.
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