If we don't have writable grubenv and we're on EFI, always show the menu
authorSteve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 22:04:16 +0000 (15:04 -0700)
committerFelix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>
Thu, 3 Jul 2025 16:35:51 +0000 (18:35 +0200)
commit82afab85262af23ec2255a563ac272af22aef841
treea8eff054f770d007cd026b39076a72c179230035
parentc99af61bec7fc25ce2340bc2535858ec31626382
If we don't have writable grubenv and we're on EFI, always show the menu

If we don't have writable grubenv, recordfail doesn't work, which means our
quickboot behavior - with a timeout of 0 - leaves the user without a
reliable way to access the boot menu if they're on UEFI, because unlike
BIOS, UEFI does not support checking the state of modifier keys (i.e.
holding down shift at boot is not detectable).

Handle this corner case by always using a non-zero timeout on EFI when
save_env doesn't work.

Reuse GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT to avoid introducing another variable.

Signed-off-by: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
Bug-Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1800722
Last-Update: 2019-06-24

Patch-Name: quick-boot-lvm.patch

Gbp-Pq: Name quick-boot-lvm.patch
util/grub.d/00_header.in