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    [SOLVED] Select OS screen

    How do you change to time it gives you to select which OS you want to boot? I did this a week ago but for the life of me I cant remember what I did, or even what to search for on Google. I'm dual booting fedora 12 and Vista, right now it gives me 2 seconds to stop the Fedora boot and I want it to be longer. Thanks
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    Hello and welcome!

    You can change the time for booting in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file by changing the timeout section to however many seconds you want it to be:

    Code:
    timeout   6
    Keep in mind that you'll need root permissions to edit and save that file.
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    Ok. So what is the full command?
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    I figured it out. Thanks for the help.
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