How do you change the boot delay time on GRUB?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Jun 7 14:14:56 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 03:35:55PM -0400, Paul King wrote:
> 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.

If you set the timeout in grub to -1 it waits forever.  I have mine
configured that way.

0 means no delay obviously (something lilo did in a different way as
far as I recall).  -1 means never timeout.  After all you can't wait a
negative amount of time.

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