Comments on: Change the GRUB Menu Timeout on Ubuntu

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:32:08 +0000

dream47,
thanks for the help, ive been trying to save this over for ages.
again thankyou.

Jack

By: dream47

dream47 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:30:52 +0000

Madhuranga,

You can not just openthe menu.lst file and change it. Under Ubuntu you can use the terminal window and enter:

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Now you can save the changes you make to the menu.lst file. The reason for this procedure is your own security.

By: Madhuranga

Madhuranga — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:17:53 +0000

Hi everyone..,

I cant save my menu.lst file. An error pops up saying “Don’t have the permission to save this file”.

I m the only user in the system and i am the admin. Can any one pls tell me how to make that file to be saved.

Thanx.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:32:33 +0000

Thanks, it helped. Also it’s worth mentioning that setting the timeout to -1 deactivates timeout.

By: ubuntu noob

ubuntu noob — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:52:10 +0000

Dave,
I was looking for how to kill the timer and couldn’t find it anywhere either. And just to clarify for the other uber noobs like myself, commenting it out simply means putting a # in front of it. And goto the top of the window and click save when your done. Sorry if I’m over-clarifying, but for the first timers like myself sometimes the most obvious things get glossed over in the forums, and thats all it takes to get hung up.
I personally was expecting this grub editing to be more like entering cryptic commands, than just scrolling down a page and making changes and clicking save. I popped my terminal cherry with this sudo gedit command which I cut and pasted right of this page, all I had to do was type my password and ad a #….rather anticlimactic for all the terminal anxiety I was imagining.
Anyway thanks Dave and “The Geek” !

By: shashin

shashin — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:48:39 +0000

I did it but how to make the splash image folder writable, please help me, I can’t paste any xpm image there

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:17:28 +0000

It would be useful to add that prevent the timer to runing the timeout line should be commented out e.g. #timeout 3.

I needed to do this and could not find out how to, anywhere on the web, so I experimented, and it worked.