How to make GRUB countdown shorter?

English Install/Boot/Login
1

I’m using opensuse 11.1 and I’d like to make the GRUB boot into the default option (opensuse,) after a shorter interval. Right now it takes about 5 seconds but I’d like to make that 2 seconds at most, because I rarely login to windows. Can anyone offer me some assistance?

I went into yast and the boot options, but I don’t understand them :frowning:

2

You can change your settings by following the steps below:

  1. Navigate to Yast → System → Bootloader
  2. Click the Bootloader Installation tab and click on the Boot Loader Options button
  3. Under the Timeout in Seconds field, change the number from 8 seconds to 2 seconds
  4. Click on the OK buttons to apply the changes

That’s it…

Good Luck!

3

Hi
Easier just to edit the menu item…
If your using gnome;


gnomesu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

If your using kde, replace with kdesu kate…

Then just look at the line called timeout and change as required (it’s
in seconds);


timeout 8

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.1 (i586) Kernel 2.6.27.21-0.1-pae
up 16:13, 1 user, load average: 0.30, 0.15, 0.10
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME

4

I’m with @Malcolm. Much easier. And considering the issues some have had fiddling with the Yast - Bootloader, I would give that a miss, unless you really know what you are doing.

5

Easiest (and safest) way:

Hit <Enter> (takes even less than 2 seconds).

6

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Agreed, and I do this on all my boxes (to just one second instead of
eight) and have never had a problem with it as long as I didn’t mistype
and nuke something like a boot option of course. I’ve done this in SLE 9,
10, 11, and in opensuse 11.1 without issues.

Good luck.

Romanator wrote:
> You can change your settings by following the steps below:
>
> 1. Navigate to Yast → System → Bootloader
> 2. Click the Bootloader Installation tab and click on the Boot Loader
> Options button
> 3. Under the Timeout in Seconds field, change the number from 8
> seconds to 2 seconds
> 4. Click on the OK buttons to apply the changes
>
> That’s it…
>
> Good Luck!
>
>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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=dDlK
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

7

Thanks for all the help guys. I don’t want to encounter any problems with yast so I’ll just edit it manually.

EDIT: kate didn’t work, so I just used kwrite - hope that doesn’t blow up my system…

VIVA LA CHAMELEON!