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Schievel1
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2 weeks ago Yes, there is an option, but it has nothing to do with grub-btrfs. It's an option of grub itself. Have a look at GRUB_TIMEOUT and friends in /etc/default/grub.
You can uninstall using the Makefile with "sudo make uninstall". If your distribution packaged grub-btrfs the uninstallation depends on your distribution. But most package managers offer uninstallation of packages. (Using something like "sudo apt-get remove...")
dos4gw-exe
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2 weeks ago Thank you for your response. I tried already to change the GRUB_TIMEOUT with running the grub-update command and I also tried to change it via the grub-optimizer. Both didn't work. I overlooked some other files witch sounded like "grub" or "btrfs" without success. My distribution is Linux Mint 22.
Schievel1
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2 weeks ago Hm can you show me the contents of the file /etc/default/grub?
dos4gw-exe
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2 weeks ago See below...
GRUB_DEFAULT="0"
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE="hidden"
GRUB_TIMEOUT="3"
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="( . /etc/os-release; echo ${NAME:-Ubuntu} ) 2>/dev/null || echo Ubuntu"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
dos4gw-exe
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2 weeks ago Sorry here is the file... grub.txt
Schievel1
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2 weeks ago So, right now you got a 3 second timeout. In order to actually see whats going on, you can change GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE="hidden" to GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE="countdown" or GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE="menu". This will show you the timeout (and the menu as well if set to menu)
To change the length of the timeout set GRUB_TIMEOUT=10 for 10s for example.
You have to run sudo update-grub for your system to take those values from the defaults and compile an actual menu settings file from them. The menu file gets put into /boot/grub/grub.cfg automatically.
Hope this helps.
dos4gw-exe
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2 weeks ago The timeout in the menu should be 3 second but it is 30 seconds. No matter what number I type in it remains at 30 seconds. I have changed from GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE="hidden" to the GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE="countdown" as you said and the menu was the same. I looked into the /boot/grub/grub.cfg and found following at line 101:
terminal_output gfxterm if [ "${recordfail}" = 1 ] ; then set timeout=30 else if [ x$feature_timeout_style = xy ] ; then set timeout_style=countdown set timeout=3
Maybe it uses the timeout written above. I renamed the file to upload it here:
Schievel1
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2 weeks ago recordfail is usually set when the system failed to boot the last time. But when grub is installed in a btrfs partition, it does not work because grub can't write to it. My guess is that something set recordfail and now it cannot reset.
What is your partition layout? Can you run fdisk -l and show the output here?
btw. you can format code in the comments here with the backtick. In line like this use single backticks ` before and after. For multi lines use an line with three backticks before and after:
if (this) {
that();
}Here is the output from fdisk -l:
Festplatte /dev/nvme0n1: 476,94 GiB, 512110190592 Bytes, 1000215216 Sektoren
Festplattenmodell: KINGSTON SKC3000S512G
Einheiten: Sektoren von 1 * 512 = 512 Bytes
Sektorgröße (logisch/physikalisch): 512 Bytes / 512 Bytes
E/A-Größe (minimal/optimal): 512 Bytes / 512 Bytes
Festplattenbezeichnungstyp: gpt
Festplattenbezeichner: A530ADA5-5848-401F-BB34-2A357C87C937
Gerät Anfang Ende Sektoren Größe Typ
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 1026047 1024000 500M EFI-System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 1026048 9414655 8388608 4G Linux Swap
/dev/nvme0n1p3 9414656 1000214527 990799872 472,5G Linux-Dateisystem
Festplatte /dev/sda: 223,57 GiB, 240057409536 Bytes, 468862128 Sektoren
Festplattenmodell: SATA3 240GB SSD
Einheiten: Sektoren von 1 * 512 = 512 Bytes
Sektorgröße (logisch/physikalisch): 512 Bytes / 512 Bytes
E/A-Größe (minimal/optimal): 512 Bytes / 512 Bytes
Festplattenbezeichnungstyp: gpt
Festplattenbezeichner: A9142496-27F5-4A4F-BDC4-7ABE8AB7C3CE
Gerät Anfang Ende Sektoren Größe Typ
/dev/sda1 2048 206847 204800 100M EFI-System
/dev/sda2 206848 239615 32768 16M Microsoft reserviert
/dev/sda3 239616 179265535 179025920 85,4G Microsoft Basisdaten
/dev/sda4 179265536 180887551 1622016 792M Windows-Wiederherstellungsumgebung
/dev/sda5 180887552 333998079 153110528 73G Linux-Dateisystem
/dev/sda6 467611648 468858879 1247232 609M Windows-Wiederherstellungsumgebung
/dev/sda7 333998080 467611647 133613568 63,7G Linux-Dateisystem
Partitionstabelleneinträge sind nicht in Festplatten-Reihenfolge.
Festplatte /dev/sdc: 14,56 GiB, 15634300928 Bytes, 30535744 Sektoren
Festplattenmodell:
Einheiten: Sektoren von 1 * 512 = 512 Bytes
Sektorgröße (logisch/physikalisch): 512 Bytes / 512 Bytes
E/A-Größe (minimal/optimal): 512 Bytes / 512 Bytes
Festplattenbezeichnungstyp: dos
Festplattenbezeichner: 0x95faa017
Gerät Boot Anfang Ende Sektoren Größe Kn Typ
/dev/sdc1 2048 30535679 30533632 14,6G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAThm, stunning. I guess grub is installed in /dev/nvme0n1p1 but that seems to be a FAT partition so recordfail should work.
For a quick workaround, can you set GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT=5 in /etc/default/grub and run sudo update-grub? And maybe post the content of /etc/grub.d/00_header, maybe we can change something in there to make this work.
dos4gw-exe
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1 week ago The workaround seems to work... Here is the content of 00_header:
set -e
# grub-mkconfig helper script.
# Copyright (C) 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# GRUB is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# GRUB is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with GRUB. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
prefix="/usr"
exec_prefix="/usr"
datarootdir="/usr/share"
grub_lang=`echo $LANG | cut -d . -f 1`
grubdir="`echo "/boot/grub" | sed 's,//*,/,g'`"
quick_boot="1"
export TEXTDOMAIN=grub
export TEXTDOMAINDIR="${datarootdir}/locale"
. "$pkgdatadir/grub-mkconfig_lib"
# Do this as early as possible, since other commands might depend on it.
# (e.g. the `loadfont' command might need lvm or raid modules)
for i in ${GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES} ; do
echo "insmod $i"
done
if [ "x${GRUB_DEFAULT}" = "x" ] ; then GRUB_DEFAULT=0 ; fi
if [ "x${GRUB_DEFAULT}" = "xsaved" ] ; then GRUB_DEFAULT='${saved_entry}' ; fi
if [ "x${GRUB_TIMEOUT}" = "x" ] ; then GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 ; fi
if [ "x${GRUB_GFXMODE}" = "x" ] ; then GRUB_GFXMODE=auto ; fi
if [ "x${GRUB_DEFAULT_BUTTON}" = "x" ] ; then GRUB_DEFAULT_BUTTON="$GRUB_DEFAULT" ; fi
if [ "x${GRUB_DEFAULT_BUTTON}" = "xsaved" ] ; then GRUB_DEFAULT_BUTTON='${saved_entry}' ; fi
if [ "x${GRUB_TIMEOUT_BUTTON}" = "x" ] ; then GRUB_TIMEOUT_BUTTON="$GRUB_TIMEOUT" ; fi
cat << EOF
if [ -s \$prefix/grubenv ]; then
set have_grubenv=true
load_env
fi
EOF
cat <<EOF
if [ "\${initrdfail}" = 2 ]; then
set initrdfail=
elif [ "\${initrdfail}" = 1 ]; then
set next_entry="\${prev_entry}"
set prev_entry=
save_env prev_entry
if [ "\${next_entry}" ]; then
set initrdfail=2
fi
fi
EOF
if [ "x$GRUB_BUTTON_CMOS_ADDRESS" != "x" ]; then
cat <<EOF
if cmostest $GRUB_BUTTON_CMOS_ADDRESS ; then
set default="${GRUB_DEFAULT_BUTTON}"
elif [ "\${next_entry}" ] ; then
set default="\${next_entry}"
set next_entry=
save_env next_entry
set boot_once=true
else
set default="${GRUB_DEFAULT}"
fi
EOF
else
cat <<EOF
if [ "\${next_entry}" ] ; then
set default="\${next_entry}"
set next_entry=
save_env next_entry
set boot_once=true
else
set default="${GRUB_DEFAULT}"
fi
EOF
fi
cat <<EOF
if [ x"\${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
menuentry_id_option="--id"
else
menuentry_id_option=""
fi
export menuentry_id_option
if [ "\${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
set saved_entry="\${prev_saved_entry}"
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z "\${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="\${chosen}"
save_env saved_entry
fi
}
EOF
cat <<"EOF"
function initrdfail {
if [ -n "${have_grubenv}" ]; then if [ -n "${partuuid}" ]; then
if [ -z "${initrdfail}" ]; then
set initrdfail=1
if [ -n "${boot_once}" ]; then
set prev_entry="${default}"
save_env prev_entry
fi
fi
save_env initrdfail
fi; fi
}
EOF
if [ "$quick_boot" = 1 ]; then
cat <<EOF
function recordfail {
set recordfail=1
EOF
check_writable () {
abstractions="$(grub-probe --target=abstraction "${grubdir}")"
for abstraction in $abstractions; do
case "$abstraction" in
diskfilter | lvm)
cat <<EOF
# GRUB lacks write support for $abstraction, so recordfail support is disabled.
EOF
return 1
;;
esac
done
FS="$(grub-probe --target=fs "${grubdir}")"
case "$FS" in
btrfs | cpiofs | newc | odc | romfs | squash4 | tarfs | zfs)
cat <<EOF
# GRUB lacks write support for $FS, so recordfail support is disabled.
EOF
return 1
;;
esac
cat <<EOF
if [ -n "\${have_grubenv}" ]; then if [ -z "\${boot_once}" ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi
EOF
}
if ! check_writable; then
recordfail_broken=1
fi
cat <<EOF
}
EOF
fi
cat <<EOF
function load_video {
EOF
if [ -n "${GRUB_VIDEO_BACKEND}" ]; then
cat <<EOF
insmod ${GRUB_VIDEO_BACKEND}
EOF
else
# If all_video.mod isn't available load all modules available
# with versions prior to introduction of all_video.mod
cat <<EOF
if [ x\$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then
insmod all_video
else
insmod efi_gop
insmod efi_uga
insmod ieee1275_fb
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
fi
EOF
fi
cat <<EOF
}
EOF
serial=0;
gfxterm=0;
for x in ${GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT} ${GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT}; do
if [ xserial = "x$x" ]; then
serial=1;
fi
if [ xgfxterm = "x$x" ]; then
gfxterm=1;
fi
done
if [ "x$serial" = x1 ]; then
if [ "x${GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND}" = "x" ] ; then
grub_warn "$(gettext "Requested serial terminal but GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND is unspecified. Default parameters will be used.")"
GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND=serial
fi
echo "${GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND}"
fi
if [ "x$gfxterm" = x1 ]; then
if [ -n "$GRUB_FONT" ] ; then
# Make the font accessible
prepare_grub_to_access_device `${grub_probe} --target=device "${GRUB_FONT}"`
cat << EOF
if loadfont `make_system_path_relative_to_its_root "${GRUB_FONT}"` ; then
EOF
else
for dir in "${pkgdatadir}" "`echo '/boot/grub' | sed "s,//*,/,g"`" /usr/share/grub ; do
for basename in unicode unifont ascii; do
path="${dir}/${basename}.pf2"
if is_path_readable_by_grub "${path}" > /dev/null ; then
font_path="${path}"
else
continue
fi
break 2
done
done
if [ -n "${font_path}" ] ; then
cat << EOF
if [ x\$feature_default_font_path = xy ] ; then
font=unicode
else
EOF
# Make the font accessible
prepare_grub_to_access_device `${grub_probe} --target=device "${font_path}"`
cat << EOF
font="`make_system_path_relative_to_its_root "${font_path}"`"
fi
if loadfont \$font ; then
EOF
else
cat << EOF
if loadfont unicode ; then
EOF
fi
fi
cat << EOF
set gfxmode=${GRUB_GFXMODE}
load_video
insmod gfxterm
EOF
# Gettext variables and module
if [ "x${grub_lang}" != "xC" ] && [ "x${LANG}" != "xPOSIX" ] && [ "x${LANG}" != "x" ]; then
cat << EOF
set locale_dir=\$prefix/locale
set lang=${grub_lang}
insmod gettext
EOF
fi
cat <<EOF
fi
EOF
fi
case x${GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT} in
x)
# Just use the native terminal
;;
x*)
cat << EOF
terminal_input ${GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT}
EOF
;;
esac
case x${GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT} in
x)
# Just use the native terminal
;;
x*)
cat << EOF
terminal_output ${GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT}
EOF
;;
esac
if [ "x$gfxterm" = x1 ]; then
if [ "x$GRUB_THEME" != x ] && [ -f "$GRUB_THEME" ] \
&& is_path_readable_by_grub "$GRUB_THEME"; then
gettext_printf "Found theme: %s\n" "$GRUB_THEME" >&2
prepare_grub_to_access_device `${grub_probe} --target=device "$GRUB_THEME"`
cat << EOF
insmod gfxmenu
EOF
themedir="`dirname "$GRUB_THEME"`"
for x in "$themedir"/*.pf2 "$themedir"/f/*.pf2; do
if [ -f "$x" ]; then
cat << EOF
loadfont (\$root)`make_system_path_relative_to_its_root $x`
EOF
fi
done
if [ x"`echo "$themedir"/*.jpg`" != x"$themedir/*.jpg" ] || [ x"`echo "$themedir"/*.jpeg`" != x"$themedir/*.jpeg" ]; then
cat << EOF
insmod jpeg
EOF
fi
if [ x"`echo "$themedir"/*.png`" != x"$themedir/*.png" ]; then
cat << EOF
insmod png
EOF
fi
if [ x"`echo "$themedir"/*.tga`" != x"$themedir/*.tga" ]; then
cat << EOF
insmod tga
EOF
fi
cat << EOF
set theme=(\$root)`make_system_path_relative_to_its_root $GRUB_THEME`
export theme
EOF
elif [ "x$GRUB_BACKGROUND" != x ] && [ -f "$GRUB_BACKGROUND" ] \
&& is_path_readable_by_grub "$GRUB_BACKGROUND"; then
gettext_printf "Found background: %s\n" "$GRUB_BACKGROUND" >&2
case "$GRUB_BACKGROUND" in
*.png) reader=png ;;
*.tga) reader=tga ;;
*.jpg|*.jpeg) reader=jpeg ;;
*) gettext "Unsupported image format" >&2; echo >&2; exit 1 ;;
esac
prepare_grub_to_access_device `${grub_probe} --target=device "$GRUB_BACKGROUND"`
cat << EOF
insmod $reader
background_image -m stretch `make_system_path_relative_to_its_root "$GRUB_BACKGROUND"`
EOF
fi
fi
make_timeout ()
{
cat << EOF
if [ "\${recordfail}" = 1 ] ; then
set timeout=${GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT:-30}
else
EOF
if [ "x${3}" != "x" ] ; then
timeout="${2}"
style="${3}"
elif [ "x${1}" != "x" ] && \
([ "$quick_boot" = 1 ] || [ "x${1}" != "x0" ]) ; then
# Handle the deprecated GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT scheme.
timeout="${1}"
if [ "x${2}" != "x0" ] ; then
grub_warn "$(gettext "Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported.")"
fi
if [ "x${GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET}" = "xtrue" ] ; then
style="hidden"
verbose=
else
style="countdown"
verbose=" --verbose"
fi
else
# No hidden timeout, so treat as GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu
timeout="${2}"
style="menu"
fi
cat << EOF
if [ x\$feature_timeout_style = xy ] ; then
set timeout_style=${style}
set timeout=${timeout}
EOF
if [ "x${style}" = "xmenu" ] ; then
cat << EOF
# Fallback normal timeout code in case the timeout_style feature is
# unavailable.
else
set timeout=${timeout}
EOF
else
cat << EOF
# Fallback hidden-timeout code in case the timeout_style feature is
# unavailable.
elif sleep${verbose} --interruptible ${timeout} ; then
set timeout=0
EOF
fi
cat << EOF
fi
fi
EOF
if [ "$recordfail_broken" = 1 ]; then
cat << EOF
if [ \$grub_platform = efi ]; then
set timeout=${GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT:-30}
if [ x\$feature_timeout_style = xy ] ; then
set timeout_style=menu
fi
fi
EOF
fi
}
if [ "x$GRUB_BUTTON_CMOS_ADDRESS" != "x" ]; then
cat <<EOF
if cmostest $GRUB_BUTTON_CMOS_ADDRESS ; then
EOF
make_timeout "${GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_BUTTON}" "${GRUB_TIMEOUT_BUTTON}" "${GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE_BUTTON}"
echo else
make_timeout "${GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT}" "${GRUB_TIMEOUT}" "${GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE}"
echo fi
else
make_timeout "${GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT}" "${GRUB_TIMEOUT}" "${GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE}"
fi
if [ "x$GRUB_BUTTON_CMOS_ADDRESS" != "x" ] && [ "x$GRUB_BUTTON_CMOS_CLEAN" = "xyes" ]; then
cat <<EOF
cmosclean $GRUB_BUTTON_CMOS_ADDRESS
EOF
fi
# Play an initial tune
if [ "x${GRUB_INIT_TUNE}" != "x" ] ; then
echo "play ${GRUB_INIT_TUNE}"
fi
if [ "x${GRUB_BADRAM}" != "x" ] ; then
echo "badram ${GRUB_BADRAM}"
fi
I don't know where your grub is installed, but it seems to think it's installed in a btrfs partition. Anyway, if you're happy with the workaround, we don't need to investigate further. This isn't really the right place for it anyway.
dos4gw-exe
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1 week ago Thank you for your effort!
Hello Antynea, I got 2 Question for you:
Kind regards