grub.conf oddity

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> I have noticed somwething strange lately in the operation of grub in F9.
> In my grub.conf I have a timeout=5. If I I choose to boot any of the
> fedoraa kernels they come up in 5 seconds.
> However, my windows XP which has the paragraph:
> title Other
>         rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>         chainloader +1
> does not. It just sits there until I hit return. I had not noticed this
> before. Can someone explain that behavior? Was it always there and I
> missed it?
> 
As far as I know, choosing any menu item besides the default has
alway required you to hit return. When you start navaging the menu,
it turns off the timeout. From the Grub info page:

 -- Command: timeout sec
     Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the
     default entry (normally the first entry defined).

Mikkel
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