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I installed several operating systems on my computer in a multiboot configuration (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Windows, ...). When I turn on my PC, the boot menu appears with a timeout. Sometimes, I don't focus on it (I turn on my PC and then I go to the fridge to get a soft drink, for example) so that I miss the boot menu so I cannot chose my desired OS. Because of that, I must restart my computer and choose my desired OS again. Is there anyway to remove the timeout. I mean when the boot menu appear, so that there is no timeout, no OS will boot until I chose my desired OS.

I am using Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

Rui F Ribeiro
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I'm assuming you're using GRUB2 as your bootloader. You can disable the timeout by opening the file /etc/default/grub and changing the value of GRUB_TIMEOUT:

GRUB_TIMEOUT=-1

Then you need to run sudo update-grub to re-generate /boot/grub/grub.cfg after editing /etc/default/grub.

See here for more information and settings.

Willi Mentzel
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raehik
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    +1. you also need to run `update-grub` (a wrapper around `grub-mkconfig`) to re-generate /boot/grub/grub.cfg after editing `/etc/default/grub` – cas Sep 20 '13 at 03:16