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I've managed to install Ubuntu 14.04 on my new Samsung ATIV Book 9 Lite ultrabook. After updating some configuratiosn in the UEFI installation was very easy. The only questions and issue I believe I'm still experience is when booting.

I believe when the laptop would be displaying the grub boot options I see the following. There is a black screen with a purple border of 10px around the screen. I'd like to know how I can update my system so that I see the grub boot manager.

I've run these commands:

sudo cat /etc/default/grub

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

The command was not possible, sudo efibootmgr.

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  • Can you edit the question with the output of sudo cat /etc/default/grub and sudo efibootmgr?
    – ChrisR.
    May 20, 2014 at 21:59
  • Do I need to install efibootmgr with apt-get?
    – user193491
    May 21, 2014 at 10:46
  • I would use the answer proposed by Subheer. The file that grub.cfg is generated from (/etc/default.grub) had the hidden timeout set. You only need efibootmgr if you have Ubuntu installed in UEFI mode. Considering efibootmgr is not present, you are most likely in BIOS mode.
    – ChrisR.
    May 21, 2014 at 15:11

2 Answers 2

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I found the answer to my issue here, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2226337.

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Open terminal (ctrl+Alt+T) and run

sudo -H gedit /etc/default/grub

Edit the file put # before the GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 and change:

GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=false

Save the file (not 'save as') and close it.

Now go back to terminal and run:

sudo update-grub

Now reboot and see.

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  • I've tried do as you've suggested but it has solved my issue. Would installing efibootmgr help?
    – user193491
    May 21, 2014 at 10:46
  • I get the following output when I run sudo update-grub after making the changes. Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported. Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-24-generic Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.elf Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin done
    – user193491
    May 21, 2014 at 19:25
  • Try installing grub-customiser
    – Sudheer
    May 22, 2014 at 6:58
  • What will grub-customiser let me do?
    – user193491
    Jun 4, 2014 at 8:57
  • It will let you change the grub options
    – Sudheer
    Jun 4, 2014 at 10:23