Sunday, January 02, 2011

Ubuntu 10.10: Change grub menu timeout

Default grub menu timeout is 10 seconds. To change it just edit the grub filesudo vim /etc/default/grub and change GRUB_TIMEOUT value from 10 to e.g. 2. Then update grubsudo update-grubAfter the restart the time before boot your default operating system be 2 seconds.

Alternatively, one can install GUI grub editor called StartUp-Manager sudo apt-get install startupmanager
Posted by W at 8:34 AM
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7 comments:

  1. Thanks, this should be useful.

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  2. There's a typo in your first snippet (grup).

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  3. Typo corrected (i.e. grup -> grub).

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  4. how to go to start up manager . please help . I'm new to ubuntu .

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  5. Nice guide :P

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  6. Could u please tell me how to get to the startupmanager . i hav installed it .

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  7. go to terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T)
    type startupmanager
    push enter.

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