Re: Cannot get GRUB boot menu to display more than 3/100ths seconds

[Barry Jackson]

On 17/10/18 00:06, address@hidden wrote:
>     Thank you. If it were that simple, I would not have posted this request
>     however.
>
>     As explained in my original post, I have edited /etc/default/grub with
>     all sorts of combinations of timeout (and other settings), but it does
>     not respect the timeout.
>     I tried all of the following, and the boot menu always disappears
>     within the flash of an eye:
>     /etc/default/grub ::
>
> GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
>
> GRUB_TIMEOUT=5000
>
> GRUB_TIMEOUT=-1
>
>
>
>     On 10/16/2018 9:29 PM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
>
>     Look at /etc/default/grub         and adjust the timeout therein
>     Regards
>      Leslie
>     Leslie Satenstein
>     Montreal Quebec, Canada
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I trust that you are running grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg after 
editing /etc/default/grub.