No grub menu at start

[Gamall]

@limotux

Some time ago, with the help of our friends and experts here I could create a “hook”, a little script that runs automatically if a certain condition occurs. That hook automatically installs Grub in case it needs to be installed, so you do not have to worry about Grub breaking. I tested it and lived with it for some time and it was OK, it removed the hassles I mentioned previously. you may check my thread and the hook at Grub Hook to grub-install and grub-mkconfig?

No no no, I was just bitten by this recently. r591 required more manual intervention, depending on system. My hook broke boot on one of my machines. Some people could not make that version work at all on their system.

Latest grub bricked my system (grub_is_shim_lock_enabled not found)

Hello, in the last update this morning i updated to kernel 6.4.1-zen2-1-zen and updated grub from core/grub 2:2.06.r566.g857af0e17-1 -> 2:2.06.r591.g6425c12cd-1. After the grub-install ... and grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg i reboot and could not boot in any of the grub menu items. the error message, when i select a kernel to boot, would be: loading snapshot: date @snapshots/snapshot loading kernel: vmlinuz-linux-zen ... error: symbol `grub_is_shim_lock_enabled` not found loading micro…

[limotux]

@Gamall

Alas, “it” in my sentence referred to systemd-boot, not Windows.

Sorry for my miss understanding.
But you know what, I am sure the day will come. I myself spent like 3 years dual booting till I could quit the harmful and addictive OS and enjoying a healthy no stress time with Linux since then.

[limotux]

@Gamall

Some people could not make that version work at all on their system.

Hello, in the last update this morning i updated to kernel 6.4.1-zen2-1-zen and updated grub from core/grub 2:2.06.r566.g857af0e17-1 → 2:2.06.r591.g6425c12cd-1. After the grub-install … and grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg i reboot and could not boot in any of the grub menu items. the error message, when i select a kernel to boot, would be: loading snapshot: date @snapshots/snapshot loading kernel: vmlinuz-linux-zen … error: symbol grub_is_shim_lock_enabled not found loading micro…

I see the OP did what was supposed to be done but…
You confirmed my worries when I said:

@limotux

But still, I (as my own personal thinking) I did not like the idea of a software change that may lead to an ubootable system or require such attention from the user. I just thought how would I be sure that nothing similar will happen again in the future so that the hook might not work!

This is what I was worried about!
I won’t discuss further here so not to be hijacking our friend @arch54 thread.
UPDATE:
I created a new thread at Grub Breakage ... Again!

[ricklinux]

@arch54
I use grub on all my systems and have very little issue with it. I am using it with btrfs and running btrfs-assistant, snapper-support and btrfsmaintenance. I have two systems on this with KDE plasma using Wayland on both. One is Intel with Nvidia dual boot Win 11 and the other is Ryzen with amdgpu single boot EOS.

If you want to use grub it’s entirely up to you. I like yourself am more familiar with grub also but i have no issue using systemd-boot. I just prefer grub for that reason.

Edit: I also have 3 or 4 other systems running on grub too.