Re: grub.conf oddity

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On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 09:55 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > I have noticed somwething strange lately in the operation of grub in F9.
> > In my grub.conf I have a timeout=5. If I I choose to boot any of the
> > fedoraa kernels they come up in 5 seconds.
> > However, my windows XP which has the paragraph:
> > title Other
> >         rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> >         chainloader +1
> > does not. It just sits there until I hit return. I had not noticed this
> > before. Can someone explain that behavior? Was it always there and I
> > missed it?
> > 
> As far as I know, choosing any menu item besides the default has
> alway required you to hit return. When you start navaging the menu,
> it turns off the timeout. From the Grub info page:
> 
>  -- Command: timeout sec
>      Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the
>      default entry (normally the first entry defined).
> 
> Mikkel
When your right your right. I can't believe I never noticed that before.
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