Bug 719718

Summary: after yum upgrade from F14 to F15, can't interrupt grub during boot to specify non-default kernel
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jonathan Kamens <jik>
Component: grubAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: jonathan, lkundrak, madhu.chinakonda, pjones
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Description Jonathan Kamens 2011-07-07 18:33:24 UTC
I upgraded from F14 to F15 using yum, via the instructions on the wiki.

After the upgrade, grub doesn't let me interrupt to select a non-default kernel. I.e., when it says what kernel it's going to boot and is counting down, it won't interrupt the countdown and give me a menu regardless of what key I hit.

Here's my grub.conf:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_jik2-lv_root
#          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=8
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
# rhgb quiet
title Fedora (2.6.38.8-32.fc15.x86_64)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.38.8-32.fc15.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_jik2-lv_root noiswmd LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us
	initrd /initramfs-2.6.38.8-32.fc15.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.35.13-92.fc14.x86_64)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.13-92.fc14.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_jik2-lv_root noiswmd LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us
	initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.13-92.fc14.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_jik2-lv_root noiswmd LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us
	initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64.img

Comment 1 Jonathan Kamens 2011-07-07 18:33:48 UTC
BTW, it's a ps/2 keyboard.

Comment 2 Jonathan Kamens 2011-07-15 03:30:30 UTC
I removed hiddenmenu from my grub config, and now I can see the menu, but I still can't move the cursor up or down to select a different kernel.
I tried reinstalling grub with grub-install and it didn't help.

Comment 3 Jonathan Kamens 2011-10-05 00:41:33 UTC
I had the keyboard plugged into the mouse port. Apparently X / the kernel can deal with this but the BIOS and grub can't. My bad.