Changing the time delay on GRUB before it autoboots

sdavmor sdavmor at systemstheory.net
Fri Nov 10 20:45:08 UTC 2006


charlie derr wrote:
> sdavmor wrote:
>> It's currently at < 5 seconds before the first kernel entry
>> boots automatically. Where do I go to change that so it can be
>> more like 20 seconds for me to hit ESC if I want to see the
>> GRUB menu?
> 
> 
> modify the line that sets the "timeout" value in /boot/grub/menu.lst
> 
> 	~c

Perfect.  That did the business nicely.  Thanks very much.
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