On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2013-01-03 16:51 (GMT-0700) Chris Murphy composed: > >> On 2013-01-03 17:00 (GMT-0500), Mairin Duffy composed: > > >>> 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. > > > I have a fuzzy recollection matching the docs that Grub location had > something to do with it, at least before Grub2. IOW, on a _system_ with only > a single Fedora installation and nothing else, there's no need for a boot > menu. With multiboot however, most people expect a choice of what to boot > without having to take any special action to be able to make a selection, so > get menu by default unless Grub is installed to a partition instead of MBR. > Maybe a virtual disk installation is somehow categorized as multiboot by the > F18 installer in configuring the Grub2 menu? No we never implemented that with GRUB2 just read the bug. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
