proxmox-boot-tool can the timer be customised

[chrcoluk]

Hi can I extend the timer on the menu, if so how?

My reason is after a hardware change to use iGPU, it seems when the screen starts showing OS boot it is already booting. So I need a longer timer.

 

[leesteken]

Sorry but I don't know. My work-around is to repeatedly press the up-arrow key (or the e key) until the display shows the menu.

 

[chrcoluk]

Thats what I been doing, I am in the bios now to see if I can get rid of the screen lag, it seems with the iGPU, there is a 2 and something second pause after the bios screen goes off and OS screen appears.

 

[chrcoluk]

Ok solution, hopefully proxmox make this easier in the future.

edit /usr/sbin/proxmox-boot-tool

This is the tool (bash script) that writes the loader.conf which has the timeout.

line 159 sets the value.

run 'proxmox-boot-tool init' on EFI partition.

For me I had two boot drives with rpool on mirrored, so I did it on one only first, booted from it, then when confirmed ok did the other, for me its sda2 and sdb2, you can confirm in the disks on the node in the proxmox UI or something like fdisk.

Only init writes the value so I assume even with an update to proxmox which edits the script back it wont matter as the refresh command wont rewrite the value.