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For some reason I cannot stop the GRUB menu from appearing every boot on my Ubuntu 14.04.05 installation.

I have ensured that my /etc/default/grub file has GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 and GRUB_TIMEOUT=0 and I then ran sudo update-grub, to no avail.

The version on the GRUB menu says GNU GRUB version v2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.14 if that helps at all, and if there's anything else that may be helpful just ask and I'll respond with it.

I searched around and couldn't find much on this topic.

Edit since OP wasn't clear enough:

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

Those are the pertinent settings currently in my /etc/default/grub, and I run sudo update-grub, which completes successfully it seems.

However, the GRUB menu still appears at boot.

Final edit for posterity:

None of the traditional solutions worked, I tried regenerating the grub file after ensuring that /etc/default/grub contained the proper information, to no avail.

What finally worked for me is entering the command:

grub-editenv create

as documented in this answer.

Conor McCarthy
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  • To elaborate the answer: grub on start reads /boot/grub/grub.cfg. The content of that file is autogenerated from /etc/default/grub, so what you were missing is forcing regeneration of the file. – Hi-Angel Nov 01 '17 at 21:25

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Open /etc/default/grub with your favorite text editor. Make sure the following lines are not commented out or add them if they don't exist.

...
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
...

Finally run :

sudo update-grub
George Udosen
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