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Joined: Sep 24, 2008
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Posted Sep 24, 2008 at 9:48:27 AM
Subject: changing auto booting time

Hi All
How can I change the auto booting time for my dual operating system? I have two operating systems- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, version 4 and Windows XP(SP2). I want to increase the auto booting time from the default time(3 sec) to 30 sec.
Kindly help.

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Ranjib
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Khabi
Joined Apr 21, 2008
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Posted: Sep 26, 2008 2:00:54 AM
Subject: changing auto booting time

Depends on what boot loader you're using.

GRUB:
Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf (depending on your setup, you might have to mount /boot/ first)
change the line that says "timeout 3" to "timeout 30"

You *may* have to reinstall grub to the bootloader, but I don't think you will.
Generically to do that (you might have to change this) run:

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grub

this will give you a grub prompt, then run:
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root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)

LILO (been a long time since I've used this, this may be incorrect):
edit /etc/lilo.conf
change the timeout=3 line to timeout=30
run the lilo command.
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saleel
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Posted: Sep 26, 2008 8:28:49 PM
Subject: changing auto booting time

it depends two things. that is basics. processor and RAM. The higher capacity of both helps the boot function to happen fastly

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[Modified by: saleel on September 26, 2008 08:33 PM]
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Khabi
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Posted: Sep 26, 2008 10:12:19 PM
Subject: changing auto booting time

Quote saleel:
it depends two things. that is basics. processor and RAM. The higher capacity of both helps the boot function to happen fastly

The bootloader timeout time depends on neither of those. Its configured *IN* the bootloader.
[Modified by: Khabi on September 26, 2008 10:12 PM]
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