How to reduce the start delay on live usb? [solved]

[Moderator caprea]

How can I reduce the startup delay on the live usb stick permanently ?

“The marked entry will start in 60 seconds”

[Member Robin]

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Hello Caprea,

Not sure whether I remember correctly, but I think the startup delay can be set in the file

/live/boot-dev/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg

which contains a line

timeout 3000

set it to some other (shorter) value.

Many greetings
Robin

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[Moderator caprea]

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Many thanks for answering, Robin.This looked confident. Unfortunately no change in the boot delay.This was one of the possibilities I had not yet tried.

There are some config files in /live/boot-dev/boot/ in which the startup time is specified, it’s kind of labyrinth.

[Member PPC]

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Like Robin I’m not too sure how to achieve this.
Please try this:

cat /etc/default/grub

If you get GRUB_TIMEOUT=60

Then it’s this file that you have to edit (in sudo mode) and set to the number of seconds you want and… generate a new iso, incorporating this changes?, I guess

P.

[Moderator caprea]

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Thanks PPC,/etc/default/grub contains GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
It’s prepared for after the installation it seems.

[Member Xunzi_23]

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Pls look at

/live/boot-dev/boot/grub/config

Hope boot-dev is right not boot/dev.
Unsure if notes from long ago are correct no stick to check at the moment

• This reply was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by Xunzi_23.

[Moderator caprea]

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Yeah, that did the trick, changing the timeout=60 to timeout=7
in live/boot-dev/boot/grub/config/bootmenu.cfg
Many thanks, Xunxi_23, for the good tip.

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