Changing GRUB

Linux Newbie linuxnewbie at comcast.net
Wed Nov 18 02:50:42 UTC 2009


That skips the "Press any key...." operation and goes straight to the menu. 
I want that operation to happen.  The idea is that anyone who turns my 
computer on (that doesn't know Fedora is installed) will think its some 
windows program and wait the few seconds for Windows to boot.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Changing GRUB


> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 19:32 -0500, Linux Newbie wrote:
>> When I turn my system on GRUB displays the message "Press any key to
>> enter the menu" then a couple of blank lines and then the default OS
>> and countdown timer.  I would like to remove the "Press any key..."
>> and two blank lines and display just the default OS and countdown
>> timer.  I looked in the grub.conf file and it's not there.  Does
>> anyone know how to remove these three lines?
>
> You could take away / comment out the "hiddenmenu" line.  That will
> remove the hop, skip, and a jump, approach down to being just one page.
> Though that page will be the menu of choices in a box, with a graphic
> background.  You can change the graphic, if you want to.
>
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