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How do I hide grub welcome messages?
To customize your grub menu, use MX BOOT OPTIONS or grub-customizer. Reboot and the Loading linux messages will be gone. YOU CAN DO THIS EVEN IF YOU ONLY WANT TO REMOVE THESE MESSAGES AND DON’T WANT TO REMOVE ‘GRUB IS LOADING….. WELCOME TO GRUB’ MESSAGES.
You need to edit the file at /etc/default/grub to prevent showing the grub menu. By default, the entries in that files look like this. Change the line GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=false to GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true .
What does quiet splash do?
From Unix & Linux, on quiet splash : The splash (which eventually ends up in your /boot/grub/grub. cfg ) causes the splash screen to be shown. At the same time you want the boot process to be quiet, as otherwise all kinds of messages would disrupt that splash screen.
How do I hide the GRUB menu showing up at the beginning of?
Make it executable and run sudo update-grub (or sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg if on Arch). Reboot and GRUB will not display the menu or introduce any delay during boot. But, you can still get the menu if you hold down Shift after the hardware has turned on but before GRUB has started.
Reboot and GRUB will not display the menu or introduce any delay during boot. But, you can still get the menu if you hold down Shift after the hardware has turned on but before GRUB has started. To understand what is happening here we must understand how GRUB configuration works.
How do I change Grub timeout to zero?
If setting GRUB_TIMEOUT= to zero in /etc/default/grub does not work, somewhere in /boot/grub/grub.cfg (the actual grub script) the timeout is getting changed. In the file which causes this, comment that line and run update-grub. This way GRUB_TIMEOUT= applies again and your change will persist resourcing grub.cfg.
How to generate a grub file using update-Grub?
This can be written manually but it is preferred to generate it using update-grub (i.e. grub-mkconfig ). That command uses /etc/default/grub and /etc/grub.d to generate the grub.cfg. The /etc/default/grub is sourced first, to set the configuration parameters for update-grub to generate the file.