GRUB is the default boot loader for Enterprise Linux. It load all the Linux distributions as well as other operating system with ease. It provides a menu which shows all the the operating system in one place. The GRUB has advanced feature as well as some basic features that makes it effective on all enterprise grade Linux. This guide provides to change the default GRUB Entries as well as to change the timeout according to the user requirements on respective Enterprise Linux that supports the GRUB.
Step-1 (Login to the root user)
su - Password:
Step-2 (List all the GRUB2 boot entries)
grep "^menuentry" /boot/grub2/grub.cfg | cut -d "'" -f2
Sample Output
CentOS Linux 8 (Core), with Linux 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 CentOS Linux 8 (Core), with Linux 0-rescue-7e890c03ebb940a9a67163adaef14894 Windows 11 (loader) (on /dev/sda1) menuentry "Windows 11 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)"
Step-3 (Change the default boot entry)
These command is use to set the entry as a default.
grub2-set-default 3
Note you can change the 3 according to your choice of entries this is the default entries to boot.
Step-4 (Check whether it is added to the default entry)
This command shows the list of GRUB entries.
grub2-editenv list
Sample Output
saved_entry=3
Step-5 (Save all the changes in GRUB2)
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Sample output
Generating grub configuration file ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64.img Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-7e890c03ebb940a9a67163adaef14894 Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-7e890c03ebb940a9a67163adaef14894.img Found Windows 11 (loader) on /dev/sda1 done
Login to the root user
su - Password:
Step-6 (Change GRUB menu time out)
vi /etc/default/grub
Sample Output
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 GRUB_DEFAULT=saved GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto rhgb quiet" GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
Note: You can make change “GRUB_TIMEOUT=ANY-POSITIVE-NUMBER” to it for making change the timeout period according to your choice.
Step-7 (Save all the changes in GRUB)
This command loads all the entries during boot time and apply those changes.
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Congratulations now you have change the GRUB entries and time on Enterprise Linux.