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Something I've noticed on our Dell D630 is that when I have a single-boot setup with LL, the laptop boots straight to the Desktop, bypassing the grubscreen. However, this problem is absent with dual-boot setups (either LL/Win or LL/Linux), where the grubscreen shows itself as you'd expect. This no-show of grubscreen, with single-boot setups, also occurs on some of our other machines.

I'm trying LL4.6 as a single-boot setup on the D630: unlike LL3.8, which it whizzes along, it doesn't seem to like LL4.6 (loads of lag on booting). So I've installed the headers & image for the older 4.4 kernel, hoping this will get LL4.6 to work on this 13-year-old machine. However, without the grublist appearing on boot-up, I'm unable to select the 4.4 kernel.  How do I fix this so I can get to select the kernel 4.4 ?

Any help / comments much appreciated ...

As soon as you boot and while the post tests are ongoing press and hold the shift key.

If you are using the UEFI version try pressing te Esc key a few times while it boots up.

(12-26-2019, 12:45 PM)DeepThought link Wrote: [ -> ]As soon as you boot and while the post tests are ongoing press and hold the shift key.
If you are using the UEFI version try pressing te Esc key a few times while it boots up.

Many thanks DeepThough, worked a treat - really appreciate that - you've saved a lot of head-scratching (I'm almost bald as it is)

Also pleased to see that kernel 4.4 now makes this trusty machine work with LL4.6. Yes, I have a legacy system, so the shift-key worked as you mentioned, grubscreen appearing pretty quickly.

Thankyou again  8)

Glad to help