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Idea #3513: How to make Ubuntu 4 seconds faster startup, at no cost

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #42: Speed Up Ubuntu-Gnome boot time.
Written by mikasjoman the 6 Mar 08 at 12:03. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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When you start Ubuntu we get the two second countdown, as a way to get into Grub. This makes ALL of us wait minimum two seconds, normally more, to even start booting.
The smart way would be to start booting directly, and show a small text the first 10 seconds. "Press ESC at startup to get into the boot menu". The current black DOS looking countdown also looks like crap, and is not a nice welcome to the free world.
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Written by mikasjoman the 6 Mar 08 at 12:03.
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Bram S wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 13:05
and how would you get into recovery mode if you cant chose your boot options? if you're allready booting you cant just go back and boot the recovery mode, you'd have to shutdown you original boot, reboot, and hey, we're booting normally again.

it is possible to do this manually, but as a default is just a very, very, VERY bad idea (and even manually wouldnt advise it

open /boot/grub/menu.lst with sudo and your favorite editor

then set the countdown timer to 0, save, exit reboot

Vivien wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 13:58
How about then displaying a grub menu if a key is pressed while still in grub (even if it lasts 0 second)?

So if I don't press that key then grub directly boots to the default kernel, and if I hold it down then I get the grub menu as it is now the default.

In fact the concerned key could be any key which is held down (one normally does not boot with a key held pressed down).

That behaviour could be documented on the graphical boot screen (even if it would only work of course after a reboot).

facundocorradini wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 14:23
what if you NEED to enter grub?...

brettalton wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 14:29
Its an even worse 10-second-wait for grub if Ubuntu detects a Windows installation...

Vivien wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 14:52
If you need to enter grub then hold a key pressed while booting. BTW this is the way Mac computers work...

XSP wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 15:16
If you don't want a countdown, edit your grub configuration. Some people need the options, so they are there. That's why it is customizable.

PopMishima wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 15:24
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"If you need to enter grub then hold a key pressed while booting. BTW this is the way Mac computers work..."

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I like this idea. Boot it directly and if you need grub, just hold a button.

Ansible wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 17:47
If this is implemented then the default for grub _must_ be savedefault, not always defaulting to ubuntu. Grub should defaul to whichever OS you booted last. Otherwise you'll always have to hold down the key for grub in order to boot into windows on a dual boot machine. Unless you know how to configure grub, which someone trying out ubuntu would not know.

blindvic wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 18:53
The other thing that makes me crazy about GRUB is that it takes about 10 seconds only to get to the menu (I have dual boot system - Windows and Ubuntu). I searched everywhere and i cannot find solution. When i have only Windows - it boots IMMEDIATELY.

F for Fragging wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 19:01
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/194730

sportman1280 wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 19:15
Agreed, this should be taken care of.

akhe wrote on the 8 Nov 09 at 16:19
please, can anyone tell me what exactly this "key what needs to be hold" is? thx.


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