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The menu passes too quickly.


From: shirish
Subject: The menu passes too quickly.
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 00:23:53 +0530

Hi all,
 First of all let me congratulate everybody on 1.96 release. Just one
of the users who has been waiting to see what u guys cook :)

Now for the first time I'm able to see something other than the
rectangular box but the problem is it passes too quickly. I want to
make sure that it takes atleast 10 mins or infinity till I make a
choice.

There was a minor bug that it was going in a loop but somebody
reported it & it has been documented & a workaround done.

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/190147/

For increasing the timeout in the menu nothing helped :(  I get to see
something like a menu & it goes away & I see a bar where I don't know
what is to be done.

I tried to find some documentation but there doesn't seem to be any
documentation. No manuals or anything in /usr/share/doc . So here's
the output

This is the output of /boot/grub/grub.cfg

#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/update-grub using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
set timeout=100
set root=(hd1,1)
  font (hd1,1)/usr/share/grub/unicode.pff ; then
  set gfxmode=640x480
  insmod gfxterm
  insmod vbe
  terminal gfxterm

### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###
### END /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-7-generic" {
        linux   (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-7-generic root=/dev/sdb1 ro
        initrd  (hd1,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-7-generic
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-7-generic (single-user mode)" {
        linux   (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-7-generic root=/dev/sdb1 ro single
        initrd  (hd1,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-7-generic
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-5-generic" {
        linux   (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-5-generic root=/dev/sdb1 ro
        initrd  (hd1,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-5-generic
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-5-generic (single-user mode)" {
        linux   (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-5-generic root=/dev/sdb1 ro single
        initrd  (hd1,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-5-generic
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-4-generic" {
        linux   (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-4-generic root=/dev/sdb1 ro
        initrd  (hd1,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-4-generic
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-4-generic (single-user mode)" {
        linux   (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-4-generic root=/dev/sdb1 ro single
        initrd  (hd1,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-4-generic
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-2-generic" {
        linux   (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-2-generic root=/dev/sdb1 ro
        initrd  (hd1,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-2-generic
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-2-generic (single-user mode)" {
        linux   (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-2-generic root=/dev/sdb1 ro single
        initrd  (hd1,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-2-generic
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
        linux   (hd1,1)/boot/memtest86+.bin
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###

I changed the timeout from 100 to 1000

This is from the /etc/default/grub

address@hidden:~$ cat /etc/default/grub
# This file is sourced by update-grub, and its variables are propagated
# to its childs in /etc/grub.d/
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=100
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=Debian

>From this it seems I need to run the sudo update-grub argument but
with some argument/option. I tried to see if update-grub has some
documentation but even update-grub. So any help would be appreciated
as to how do I go about changing the timeout to a more better process.

-- 
          Regards,
          Shirish Agarwal
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