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January 1, 2007

Show and hide the GRUB Menu on Ubuntu

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When your Ubuntu Machine boots, you can see GRUB loading. please wait… Press Esc to enter the menu…

Edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file using the following command

sudo vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

Hide GRUB Menu

By default GRUB Hides the menu .

Now search the section that looks like this

## hiddenmenu
# Hides the menu by default (press ESC to see the menu)
hiddenmenu

Show GRUB Menu

Put a # before hiddenmenu to comment that line out

## hiddenmenu
# Hides the menu by default (press ESC to see the menu)
#hiddenmenu

Save the file, and you should see the menu the when you reboot your machine.
Change the GRUB Menu Timeout value on Ubuntu

If you want to change the grub menu timeout use the following procedure
Edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file using the following command

sudo vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

Now find the following section

## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout 3

The timeout value is defined in seconds and now you need to save the file.

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