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I stopped Dualbooting and I dont want to have to choose the OS anymore and just have it load Ubuntu like normal like before?

Any help is appreciated.

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If you stopped dual booting, probably you have stopped using the other OS. Why cant you remove the other OS so that ubuntu can boot normally. – karthick87 Mar 8 '12 at 8:37
Duplicate of (either) askubuntu.com/questions/124074/… or askubuntu.com/questions/52963/… – david6 Jun 13 '12 at 7:57
if any of these answers "answered" your question please accept one of them :) – blade19899 Jul 11 '12 at 16:04
@david6: I don't see how either of those are duplicates of this question. I think this is about hiding the grub menu during the timeout. – oKtosiTe Sep 20 '12 at 9:36
Sorry, the second link was supposed to be: askubuntu.com/questions/66070/… This includes how to: Hide the Grub2 menu, and use the default menu option – david6 Sep 20 '12 at 9:49

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So you can just change grub settings.


type in terminal

  1. sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
    you need to change thsis

  2. in the GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=false change to GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true

  3. save that file

  4. type sudo update-grub

IF

you don't get result just look at this bug.

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it is currently changed to True but I still see the grub menu... – Alex Poulos Mar 9 '12 at 4:56
Im on 12.04 and i tried this but it already said "true" and it still shows up. The only other OS's I have are the failsafe and Memtest - that's it. I've already deleted my Windows Partition and updated grub and the menu still shows. – Alex Poulos Mar 9 '12 at 5:11
@AlexPoulos look at this link – geoh Mar 9 '12 at 14:41
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I tried all those tips they didnt work, ended up reducing the timeout time to zero as follows: 

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
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if you want to remove a boot entry just type in:

sudo update-grub

If that doesn't work, install the startup manager, like so:

sudo apt-get install startupmanager


with startup-manager you can

  1. choose with entry to boot in,
  2. choose the resolution and, how long to wait before booting,
  3. you can also choose 0 for automatic booting the default boot-entry
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burg but he is taking about grub – Naruto Mar 8 '12 at 8:38
sorry typo. it supposed to be sudo update-grub, i edited the answer – blade19899 Mar 8 '12 at 8:46
The only issue with this is that the version of Startup-manager I have doesn't show much options -Imgur – Alex Poulos Mar 9 '12 at 4:50
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Im on 12.04 and i tried this but it already said "true" and it still shows up. The only other OS's I have are the failsafe and Memtest - that's it. I've already deleted my Windows Partition and updated grub and the menu still shows – Alex Poulos Mar 9 '12 at 5:11
next to "timeout in seconds" there is a box with the number 10 rename it to number 0 – blade19899 Mar 9 '12 at 10:01
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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.

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=false
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
  • Remove the # mark from second line, and
  • Change the line GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=false to GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true.

After changes, the required portion of the file will look like this


GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
  • Then run sudo update-grub command in the terminal, and reboot to see the result.
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