The default settings for the GRUB2 timeout menu selection during the system boot is 5 seconds. To change this value open /etc/default/grub grub default config file. The content of the file looks similar the the one shown below:
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)" GRUB_DEFAULT=saved GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.lvm.lv=rhel/root crashkernel=auto \ rd.lvm.lv=rhel/swap vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 vconsole.keymap=us rhgb quiet" GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
To change the timeout settings simply updated the GRUB_TIMEOUT GRUB2 directive the to desired number of seconds your wish GRUB2 wait until you make your boot menu selection. For example to make GRUB 2 wait 20 seconds change this value to:
GRUB_TIMEOUT=20
In case that you do not wish GRUB 2 menu to appear / disable change the value to 0 seconds:
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
Once you have updated your settings update GRUB2 settings using grub2-mkconfig command to create a new updated GRUB2 config file:
[root@rhel7 ~]# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg Generating grub configuration file ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64.img Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-75387b56d72b48b380810499805ec28a Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-75387b56d72b48b380810499805ec28a.img done