No effect after editing grub.cfg & updating it

Question

I've reached a dead end in this matter & I was wondering if someone out there could help me out.

I located the grub file located in etc/default and edited it following reliable instructions. After I do & run the sudo update-grub & reboot, nothing changes & it stays the same.

I even have an application called "start-up manager" to simply adjust let's say the time-out, sadly that didn't work either.

Could someone help me out?

Note: I do have this thing called burg to have a GUI when booting, but even before I installed it the problem was there.

Here's my grub.cfg:

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=1
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" vga=775"

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=800x600

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

Files in etc/grub.d: 00_header, 05_debian_theme, 10_linux, 20_linux_xen, 20_memtest86+, 30_os-prober, 40_custom, 41_custom, readme

boot/grub/grub.cfg

http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/538608/

Answer 1

Found the solution people. It seems that because of "burg" I must make changes to the burg file located in etc/default. And then run sudo update-burg.

Answer 2

Have you tried setting GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true to false?

Answer 3

You say that you have located the file grub in /etc/default but the file you have pasted above is /etc/grub/gruf.cfg.

Are you sure that you are editing the right file? /etc/grub/grub.cfg is an auto-generated file and it will update from configuration in other files whenever you run update-grub. You need to make changes into /etc/default/grub for them to take effect.

What I think is happening at the moment is that you change /etc/grub/grub.cfg and then you run update-grub, which reverts your changes, and then when you reboot you don't get what you want. Please try changing /etc/default/grub and then let us know what the output is.

Answer 4

Here is the process step by step:

sudo -i                             gives root access

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub        gedit is editor 

GRUB_DEFAULT=X                      Change depending on order of boot eg 3
                                        where numbering starts with 0.

Save file and run the following from the terminal.

sudo update-grub                    updates file