How do you change the boot delay time on GRUB?

[Kevin Cozens]

Fabio FZero wrote:
> On a related note: am I the only one here who HATES the new Grub configuration?

You aren't the only one. I certainly don't "get it". I went back to
using grub 1 on both of my machines.

The configuration file for grub 2 seemed exceedingly complex compared to 
the simple four line entries of grub 1. Grub 2 appeared to install, or 
create, a bunch of .mod files in my /boot partition and caused problems 
when doing kernel updates as the .mod files only allowed me to have 2 
active kernels with no room for the new (third) one. The .mod files 
might have been part of the kernel update process when using grub 2, but 
I can't be sure about that. I also read in several places that you need 
to run a command after changing the grub 2 configuration file to make 
the changes available at the next boot. That smacks of the bad old days 
of LILO. At least grub should still give you a command line so you can 
enter the commands needed to make the system boot if you forgot to run 
the grub update program.

With grub 1, if you don't want to automatically boot into your default 
OS after a fixed delay, just comment out the "timeout" line and grub 
will wait indefinitely.

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