Setting default boot time out in Solaris 10 and later

To locate the menu.lst file, type:


# /sbin/bootadm list-menu
The location and contents of the file are displayed.

The location for the active GRUB menu is: /boot/grub/menu.lst
default 0
timeout 10
0 Solaris
1 Solaris failsafe
2 second_disk
3 second_disk failsafe

edit this file in  /boot/grub/menu.lst.


To edit time out from 10 sec to 1 Sec


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ROOT@ORASUN02$ /sbin/bootadm list-menu
The location for the active GRUB menu is: /boot/grub/menu.lst
default 0
timeout 1
0 Solaris 10 10/09 s10x_u8wos_08a X86
1 Solaris failsafe
ROOT@ORASUN02$


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Rajani