Dual boot: Change GRUB menu timeout (XBMC Lucid)

XBMC Lucid is Ubuntu 10.0.8 based. Therefor it uses GRUB2 bootloader.

Until now every setting for GRUB was saved in the “menu.lst” file.

With GRUB2 this has changed.

To change the default timeout (which is 10 seconds) to something like 2 seconds, which is enough for me to choose my OS, do the following:

• SSH to your XBMC’s IP address
• “sudo nano /etc/default/grub”
• change default timeout from 10 to whatever you like (-1 will force grub to wait for a user input)
• “sudo update-grub”
• “sudo reboot”