Time to selecting OS on boot screen

[aminmusa]

How to set display time to list operating system on Boot Screen with Ubuntu 10.10?????
Help me please..

[AceInfinity]

There's lots of information here on that:

https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/switching/d...ustom.html

[Peter L]

You'll need to install grub2 using a livecd.

Here is what to do:
1. Boot LiveCD with Ubuntu and open the terminal.
2. Type "sudo fdisk -l" that is an L
3. Type "sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt" (you'll need to check if it id sda1, thats your ubuntu partition)
4. Type "sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda"
5. Type "sudo update-grub"

Let me know what happens

[Solidus]

/boot/grub/menu.lst
edit that file.

[AceInfinity]

/boot/grub/menu.lst
edit that file.

Adding onto this, you should see a part of text in that file that looks like this, pretty simple:

Code:

## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout        10

Edit the timeout in seconds (10 as default).

[aminmusa]

any outcome, i will tell you. thanks all!

[Peter L]

I'm confused..do you have grub installed?

[aminmusa]

I'm confused..do you have grub installed?

yes

[Peter L]

Oh, then ignore my steps I no longer understand the question.

[cfillion]

Adding onto this, you should see a part of text in that file that looks like this, pretty simple:

Code:

## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout        10

Edit the timeout in seconds (10 as default).

@aminmusa: Put this on /boot/grub/grub.cfg file.