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. -- ======================================================================= It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. -- Abraham Lincoln ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
