How do you change the boot delay time on GRUB?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Jun 7 14:12:29 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 02:54:17PM -0400, ted leslie wrote:
> /boot/grub/menu.lst   
> timeout         5                    //change this to 1
> 
> on my 9.08 ubuntu, may be different on new grub.
> 
> may not want to change to 0? as if you had to go into safe mode,
> 0 may not leave you the required ability no matter how fast you
> are on key board? I have set it to 1 if i want a almost immediate
> boot, yet time to override if necessary.

Grub2 doesn't use that file anymore.

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