[ale] auto start

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Mon Dec 27 14:32:14 EST 2010


Menu.lst isn't editable like that since Ubuntu 9.10; try https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2

Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:

>On 12/26/2010 11:01 PM, John Pilman wrote:
>> That works most of the time, but occasionally, GRUB displays a screen
>> asking which operating system to start.  I have no remote access when I
>> can't get past GRUB, and without a monitor or keyboard, it is tough to
>> select an OS.  I'd like to force the boot without waiting for input, but
>> I have not tinkered with GRUB much, and I did not find anything in the
>> documentation that addresses this situation.
>>
>> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>/boot/grub/menu.lst:
>
># You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default
>entry
># is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.
># WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not change this entry to 'saved'
>or your
># array will desync and will not let you boot your system.
>default        0
>
>## timeout sec
># Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the
>default entry
># (normally the first entry defined).
>timeout        5
>
>
>
>
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