[SOLVED] Grub2 countdown timer disable...

[nik33]

Hello everyone,

Can someone help me to disable the timer countdown in grub2 with a safe way?
I'm using Mint 18.3 Cinnamon and i like it a lot!

[jimallyn]

You have to edit the /etc/default/grub config file as root. Open your file manager and navigate to /etc/default. Click anywhere within that folder, but not on any particular file. Right click on Open as Root. This will open that folder in a new file manager window with root privileges. Then double click the grub file. It will open in a root text editor. Edit as needed. I would probably set GRUB_TIMEOUT="3" so that it won't spend a long time waiting for you to select, but you can still get into the grub manager if you need to. There are other parameters in there, but I think GRUB_TIMEOUT is the only one you need to mess with. When you are done editing the file, save it and close it, then open a terminal and enter sudo update-grub. Oh, before you edit the file, you might want to save a backup copy of it. That way if you screw up, you can always go back to where you were. I usually just name a copy as grub.OLD or something along that line.

[nik33]

thank you, it worked! i just edited the GRUB_TIMEOUT=-1 and now the timer is gone, perfect!