Tried everything, Grub doesn't change

Bazzite
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I’m dual booting Windows 11 with secure boot enabled

Editing etc/default/grub or /boot/grub2/user.cfg doesn’t work

following what this link says doesn’t work either:

Non so cosa fare, voglio solo mettere un timeout di 10 secondi e mettere Windows come primario all’avvio

thanks in advance to anyone who can help me

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Were there any errors?

Or did you go through the process seemingly smoothly and the changes just did not save/persist?

(Did you happen to also ask about this on Reddit a while ago, or are there just more people running into issues?)

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No errors, Just the process doesn’t persist

Changing setting result in no change at all in grub

Also Yes, i asked on reddit a while ago :sweat_smile:

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Sorry, for taking so long. Responding now so that the thread doesn’t get locked. I’ll try to experiment on my devices to test again.

I’ve done it before on my laptop, but have some new installs that I’ve been meaning to customize. These should hopefully be more representative and reproducible instead of an older install (I think in theory it shouldn’t matter, but I have my suspicions based on my first go at this).

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Hey Sorry for late response, let me know if possibile :slight_smile: .

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Alright, so the instructions near the top of the thread were a bit weird to use, but this specific comment was usable.

I prefer to do it a little bit differently, but the premise is still the same. Apologies if this is stuff you already know, but might as well be explicit and cover every step.

Practice writing and saving with nano in a safe place (expand if needed):

This will create a text file in Documents and open it in the nano terminal text editor

nano Documents/test.txt

After typing some text: Ctrl+X to exit => Y to save => Enter to confirm writing and exit

My process is:
  1. Create the file (or enters the file if already exists)
    sudo nano /boot/grub2/user.cfg
  2. Write configuration text (for themes, time, resolutions, etc) and save
    set timeout=10
  3. Check if the file was written to and saved correctly
    sudo nano /boot/grub2/user.cfg

On my machine, it seems like it took a couple reboots before the changes took place. Let me know if this doesn’t work for you.

Were you using sudo when trying to edit these files? If not, that could explain the edits not persisting in this location.

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Grub just reconfigured, initially contained this:

“set timeout_style=menu
set timeout=10”

Then I set this:

“set gfxmode=“1920x1080,1280x1024,1024x768,auto”
set gfxpayload=keep
load_video
insmod gfxterm
terminal_input gfxterm
terminal_output gfxterm
set timeout_style=menu
set timeout=10”

I’ve rebooted several times and also run “ujust regenerate-grub”, but nothing seems to have happened, grub is always at 3 seconds :frowning:

Maybe my installation is faulty

thanks anyway!

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Are the quotation marks part of what you wrote in the config file or just part of posting here?

Otherwise, I got no ideas, sorry.

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no, unfortunately it was without quotation marks :frowning:

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