[meta-intel] Atom-E3845: Grub auto start ?

Saul Wold sgw at linux.intel.com
Fri Sep 18 08:00:41 PDT 2015


On 09/18/2015 02:57 AM, Prasant J wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:57 AM, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09/17/2015 06:05 AM, Prasant J wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm using Intel Atom E3845 based hardware board for my embedded product
>>> and
>>> I'm using valleyisland-32 image.
>>>
>>>
>>> I want grub to auto start and not wait for user input.
>>>
>>> So, I manually added (appended) the following lines:
>>> GRUB_DEFAULT=0 (for the first menu entry, there is only one entry)
>>> GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
>>> to /grub/grub.cfg file
>>> but it does not seem to work.
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you confirm which version of grub you are using?
>>
>> for grub2, you should be modifing /boot/grub/grub.cfg with
>> set default="0"
>> set timeout=<timeval>
>>
>> Sau!
>
>
>
> Thanks Saul for the response. I tried your suggestion but does not work.
>
>
> The strange thing is I tried changing the menu entry name  from "Linux" to
> "Linux test" even that does not change.
> Grub seems to be doing some black magic which I cannot get hold of.
>
>
> Any more suggestions. I'm kind of stuck.
>
Where did you make the changes, to which file exactly?  Was it on the 
harddrive your booting from or USB stick your installing from?

For me modifying the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file worked just fine and 
changed the behavior.

Sau!

>
> -Regards, Pj
>


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