GRUB menu hidden by default?

Thu Jan 3 23:51:00 UTC 2013

On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Thu 03 Jan 2013 04:55:22 PM EST, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> Documentation says "The GRUB menu defaults to being hidden,
>> except on dual-boot systems." but as far as I know this hasn't been > true since Fedora 16 when GRUB2 started being used. Is there a
>> plan to revert back to a hidden GRUB menu at some point or is the > current behavior stable?
> 
> It should be hidden for final releases, but not for testing and 
> development releases. You may have upgraded from a beta or test 
> release, in which case your grub config file allowing it to be active 
> carried over when you upgraded to final.

Nope. I just downloaded F17 and F16 live CD's, x86_64 and installed each to new clean virtual disks. I get GRUB menu after reboot in both cases.

Chris Murphy