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

8 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:25 PM

    Thanks, this should be useful.

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  2. Anonymous3:27 PM

    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. Anonymous1:59 AM

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

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  5. Anonymous1:27 AM

    Nice guide :P

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  6. Anonymous4:36 PM

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

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  7. Anonymous6:53 AM

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

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  8. Anonymous9:37 PM

    After:

    sudo apt-get install startupmanager

    Im getting this:

    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    E: Unable to locate package startupmanager

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