Last Update: 2024-03-13
The following guide or recipe requires shell access to your FydeOS installation, therefore is assumed to be enabled. If altering system file is required, you will also need to .
GRUB plays a crucial role in FydeOS for PC, particularly in facilitating the silent upgrade feature by switching boot partitions. If you find the GRUB menu appearing at every system boot-up to be bothersome, this guide will help you hide it. We'll achieve this by modifying the grub.cfg
configuration file in the EFI directory.
ctrl
+ alt
+ F2
to open the tty shell interface.chronos
.Type sudo su
to acquire administrator privileges.
Note: from FydeOS v17 and openFyde r114 onwards,
sudo su
will no longer work. Older versions will not be impacted.
Input lsblk
to verify that your partition 12 is sda12
. Adjust this according to your specific situation.
Mount the sda12
partition as /tmp/p12
by executing the following commands:
mount -o remount rw /
mkdir /tmp/p12
mount /dev/sda12 /tmp/p12
Use the following command to open the file:
sudo nano /tmp/p12/efi/boot/grub.cfg
Scroll down to locate set timeout
and modify it as shown below:
set timeout=0
Save the changes by pressing ctrl
+ x
and then typing y
.
Execute the following commands to unmount the partition and restart the system:
umount /tmp/p12
reboot
By following these steps, you can successfully hide the GRUB menu during the boot-up of FydeOS for PC.