# Grub menu 30 sec

You may have noticed that every time during OS boot, the GRUB menu appears first and stays on your screen for 30 seconds.

This can be useful in rare cases, but it is not necessary in everyday use, especially since this GRUB menu stays for half a minute and you need to hit **Enter** to go on quicker.

[Here is the related issue](https://github.com/elementary/os-patches/issues/178), and below you can see the solution.

To remove this thirty-second GRUB meditation, do the following:

1. Open `/etc/default/grub` as admin.
2. Add `GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT=0` to the file and save changes.

<figure><img src="https://785535311-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FWJaNOvR4IPrjs8m32E3P%2Fuploads%2FSQP7A8mhhtMTEfJN8SQC%2Fgrub-setup.png?alt=media&#x26;token=163ff3e9-f396-468a-b95d-526f5b7bcf27" alt=""><figcaption><p>Added GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT=0 to the GRUB file</p></figcaption></figure>

3. In the Terminal, run `sudo update-grub`
4. Reboot.

{% hint style="info" %}
If you need the 30 sec GRUB menu again, repeat the procedure above but delete the `GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT=0` string you added at step 2.
{% endhint %}


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