I managed to make the boot menu screen not appear by holding the minus key down to 0 second timeout in the boot menu itself. Thanks everyone, especially David Thurstenson. PS: I still have no idea, why does systemd-boot ignore the timeout setting from loader.conf, but obeys the rest. On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Tung Anh Vu <cuttycz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm using systemd-boot on my laptop. My /boot/loader/loader.conf contains > only the line: > > default arch > > but when booting, the boot menu still appears. What could be the cause of > this issue? Thanks in advance. >