How do you change the boot delay time on GRUB?

[Paul King]

The problem is fixed, although not quite the way I wanted. Thanks to
those on the list, and Ubuntu forums.

In response to FZero, I agree Grub sucks, and I found nothing wrong with
LILO. For example, I liked the fact that the timeout could be set to
zero, making LILO wait forever. There will be no way that I would want
to set the timeout to 1 or 2. More like 5999, like I did with LILO, but
I have to settle for an inflexible 100 with grub. And with Grub, zero
means zero. It was also difficult to find documentation on this setting.

There are many reasons for a computer to reboot, not all of them having
to do with me at the console doing the rebooting. Sometimes, I could be
doing something else, and need more time. After a power outage, I often
don't respond in the default 10 seconds, and by the time I reached my
computer, Grub has already decided for me which OS it will boot into.

Paul

On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 09:12 -0400, marthter wrote:
> On 10-06-05 10:12 PM, Fabio FZero wrote:
> > On a related note: am I the only one here who HATES the new Grub configuration?
> >
> > If anybody here gets it and thinks it's brilliant, please write some
> > comments explaining why. All I see is a new and unnecessary layer of
> > abstraction.
> >
> > - FZ
> As root, edit the GRUB_TIMEOUT line in /etc/default/grub and then run 
> 'update-grub'.
> 
> Note that setting it lower than about 2 may be faster than your video 
> card changes modes so you may not actually see the count at all.  In 
> that case, for the times when you DO want something besides the default, 
> you have to blindly press something (say, down cursor key) repeatedly 
> during boot up in hopes of catching it.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> p.s. As for the new layer of abstraction, I did try a 
> just-to-see-if-I-could experiment the other week to set the grub menu to 
> a higher video mode (I can't remember if it was 1920x1440 or 1600x1200 
> that I got working) and a splash image of that resolution, and it was 
> much easier lately than I remember it beingwith the old way.
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