How do you change the boot delay time on GRUB?

Mon Jun 7 14:12:06 UTC 2010

On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 02:19:01PM -0400, Paul King wrote:
> I have GRUB "1.98-1ubuntu6", and while I have been using GRUB, I have
> always wondered how to change the delay time prior to GRUB booting into
> the default operating system. I would even like to switch it off, if
> possible. Thanks for any help you may have, as I can't seem to find
> mention of it anywhere, and I think a 10-second wait is silly, having
> been accustomed to adjusting LILO to any delay time I liked.

Well on debian's GRUB2, it is in /etc/default/grub as an argument called
GRUB_TIMEOUT.

Probably the same on ubuntu.

Debian defaults to 5 seconds.

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