a simple boot menu question

[Colin Law]

On 14 December 2011 12:18, LinuxIsOne <reallife at hmamail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a simple doubt that in the file '/etc/default/grub', we have two lines:
>
> (i)  GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
> (ii) GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
>
>
> (i) If I change GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0    to
>
> either    #GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0    or    GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=
> {nothing after the equal sign}
>
> does the above two lines are exactly same? Since in the second we are
> just not having any time, so that it always display the boot menu
> (while the PC boots) and the same thing (?) are we doing when we are
> appending '#' symbol at the beginning of the line...is it okay that
> anyone of this is okay?
>
>
>
> (ii) GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
>
> If I change GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true    to
>
> either     #GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true    or
> GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=false
>
> does the same thing? since making it 'false' so that the grub shows a
> countdown to the timeout value (by default 10 secs) or either
> appending '#' at the beginning of the file. Either of these two are
> the same thing?
>
>
> AND finally running:
>
> sudo update-grub
> sudo update-grub2

You don't need both of those, just sudo update-grub will suffice.
As far as the other questions are concerned why not just try it and
see?  That will be much quicker than waiting for a reply here.  I
don't know the answers, or more correctly do not have the time to find
out.

Colin