On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 15:15 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:28:19PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
>> As it stands, one has to hover over the
>> escape key, trying to time it correctly.
>
> Not weighing in with any opinion on your propositions but just try
> _before_ even a grub screen will show up, but not far before, to hit
> "Up" or "Down" arrow keys, or even "Escape", and
patiently wait for
> what will happen.
I know all that, but several times in the past 24 hours I've found
myself booting the wrong thing.
Increasing _to_ three seconds? Ten is nearer the mark, I think.
Especially for those of us playing with virtual machines and windows
popping up and going away
10 seconds? And what about those of us who boot into Fedora by default
and don't want to wait? If I want to use my other install, I reboot ,
sitting right there. No problem pressing a key to stop the timeout.
People change the timeout according to their requirements.
System>admin>boot loader.
You should do the same
regards,
Ankur