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I installed Ubuntu 14.04 to a 64gb USB Flash drive so I have my desktop and apps wherever I go. (3 partitions, swap, boot and home)

I've set up a netbook to boot to USB drive but instead of booting directly to Ubuntu, it starts in GRUB.

How do I get it to boot directly without the pause for me to make a selection in GRUB?

Thanks

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You can edit grub to don't wait any second (instead of 10 seconds) and boot the first option in the menu:

  • Alt + F2 and paste gksu gedit /etc/default/grub
  • Search for the line "GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=10" and change it to "GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0"
  • edit the "GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=false" to read "GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
  • Open a terminal and paste: sudo update-grub

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  • Thank you for your reply. It still keeps stopping there even after making the change you advised
    – BarneyG
    Dec 7, 2014 at 0:37
  • @BarneyG I have updated my answer please look at it.
    – Alex Jones
    Dec 7, 2014 at 8:48
  • Thanks again but the problem persists. I don't know what it is that I'm doing wrong. I'm booting to a USB Flash drive that I created with Startup Disk Creator, select "Live-install" then I add the second USB Flash drive and go through the steps to partition the drive with swap on dev/sb1, dev/sb2 is set to "/" dev/sb3 is set to /home. Everytime I do this, the UUID for the swap partition on my normal Ubuntu install is changed and the USB drive that I'd like to "work" from on any computer is still having problems in that the grub menu appears. Any thoughts on how best to accomplish this?
    – BarneyG
    Dec 9, 2014 at 1:58
  • @BarneyG instead of taking soo much trouble you could have set timeout to small value like 3 or 5 sec and let it choose ubuntu automatically
    – Alex Jones
    Dec 9, 2014 at 9:56
  • @BarneyG I am sorry can you please explain me again. I dont understand why you are using two USB. if its a different question from the question above then start a new question so that it will get more attention.
    – Alex Jones
    Dec 9, 2014 at 10:14

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