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Time to selecting OS on boot screen
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04-20-2011, 05:14 PM
Step by step:

1: Open terminal
2: Type nano /boot/grub/grub.cfg
3: Navigate to 'timeout' and edit the digit
4: Press CTRL and X simultaneously
5: Press Y
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04-20-2011, 09:17 PM
Guys, thanks! succesfully setup
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04-20-2011, 09:22 PM
Glad you figured it out finally Smile were you trying to make the boot menu time longer?
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04-20-2011, 10:28 PM
I already installed dual boot OS . WinXP and Ubuntu.
Thats why i need to set my time to choose OS.
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04-21-2011, 12:40 AM
(04-20-2011, 10:28 PM)aminmusa Wrote: I already installed dual boot OS . WinXP and Ubuntu.
Thats why i need to set my time to choose OS.

Yeah, but I was asking if you were decreasing or increasing that time lol. Default should have been 10 seconds. I've never needed to change it dual booting with Mint and Win7
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04-22-2011, 04:59 AM
(04-21-2011, 12:40 AM)Infinity Wrote: Yeah, but I was asking if you were decreasing or increasing that time lol. Default should have been 10 seconds. I've never needed to change it dual booting with Mint and Win7

I need that.. because my pc is too fast boot.. sometimes i don't have much time to selecting OS.
I'm using i5 processor.
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04-22-2011, 07:51 AM
Do use these steps ?

(04-20-2011, 05:14 PM)Solidus Wrote: 1: Open terminal
2: Type sudo nano /boot/grub/grub.cfg
3: Navigate to 'timeout' and edit the digit
4: Press CTRL and X simultaneously
5: Press Y
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04-22-2011, 05:06 PM
(04-22-2011, 07:51 AM)cfillion Wrote: Do use these steps ?


Yes. Im done with that way.. Smile
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#19
05-29-2011, 08:48 PM
Unleashed seems to have posted the answer.
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05-31-2011, 03:40 PM
(05-29-2011, 08:48 PM)Black Ghost Wrote: Unleashed seems to have posted the answer.

It was a well earned ban, read the threads.
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