Hi,
I just installed Trisquel 7 and I wonder why I needed to enter the GRUB user
and password to boot other operating systems when installation was finished?
It was a bit annoying since I didn't know where the password was stored.
Luckily I found it in /boot/grub/grub.cfg. However, uncomment
My system has an external USB-connected HDD in addition to the internal HDD,
both running Trisquel 7, and the internal HDD has a mostly unused Windows 7
installation that came with the notebook. Grub demands a password for the
external instance of Trisquel but _not_ for the Windows 7 installa
> Is this the way it should be
We can debate this and have done so on this forum before.
> or is it a bug?
It's by choice.
You don't need to reinstall grub but just edit /etc/grub.d/01_PASSWORD
including commenting it out and then runsudo update-grub
>> We can debate this and have done so on this forum before. > is it a bug?
It seems to me that you are right. For an OS all the way developed with
user-friendliness as its main motif, that feature is an anti-feature.
I support a grub password, but unfortunately this version of ubuntu still
have it bugged, you can test by hitting backspace 28 times and then see if
the pc reboots when hitting enter, which is the case on mine :(
