Timeout in GRUB

[EndianX]

Hey everybody. I am using GNU GRUB v0.95 which was installed when I installed Ubuntu. When I want to switch from Linux to Windows, it usually takes me about 5 tries, as I am doing other things and miss the timeout.

I want to make it something like 600 seconds. I can't figure out how to do this though. I don't know anything about GRUB other than how to pick the OS I want from the menu.

I know how to get to the command line, but couldn't really get anything done from there. I read I need to edit a config file, but don't know how to do that or where it is.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

[psic]

Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst, find the line that sais "timeout X" and make X something big (it's in seconds).

[oz]

Edit the timeout entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst to whatever time you want. If you want 600 seconds, this should work:

timeout  600

Ahh... psic was quicker on the submit button than me. :P

[psic]

Ahh... psic was quicker on the submit button than me. :P

It's all in the wrist

[EndianX]

Ah, thanks guys

I don't know much about partitions and such. I thought the boot loader was stored somewhere, well, less easy to get to than /boot.

Thanks again.