How do I prevent GRUB2 from automatically booting into an OS?

Question

I am dual-booting Fedora 16 and Windows 7, and using grub to handle booting. The default is set to Fedora, and I have a real problem with getting distracted during boot and having it boot into Fedora when I want to go to windows. I would like it to, instead of timing out and booting to the default, to just sit in GRUB until I choose one. How can I make it do that?

Answer 1

According to the Grub2 wiki, if you set/add the GRUB_TIMEOUT directive and change the value to -1, you will cause GRUB2 to pause until you make a decision, which seems to be what you're looking for.

Answer 2

Think you can either remove the 'timeout' entry or set it to -1

Answer 3

Setting the grub time value to -1 will cause it to be disabled. Alternatively, you can hit any key (like a cursor key) to disable the current boot menu countdown. Editing the grub2 config file is documented here. Remember that manual updates to the cfg file are overwritten by update-grub.