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Am running FP64 from a USB stick on UEFI desktop PC. I like to change the time from default 10 to 2 sec to boot faster. I get an error when I try to edit the grub.cfg file on the USB stick, it is read-only. when I try chmod +w grub.cfg still get the same error.
with ls -l command shows: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.6K Sep 17 2020 grub.cfg
Is there a way to edit the file to shorten the boot time in FP64?
Is this because you wrote the Fossapup ISO onto the flash drive with a dd operation?
using dd probably made the format iso9660.
This is a read only format.
Do you have another USB, you could use the installer programs in Fossapup64, to do an install to it?
You can first partition and format the USB, to a writable format, using the Gparted program in Fossapup64.
USB flash drives come already formatted to fat32, so that works.
If you want to use a save folder and not a save file.
The format needs to be a Linux format (ext2, 3, 4 or even f2fs)
you need to understand, that time delay setting is there, for a good reason.
If the default boot menu entry will not boot.
That time delay, gives you time to select one of the other menu boot entries.
Those do give you ability, to still boot and fix something, that is not working, in normal boot.
I suggest do not set the delay time less than 5.
You can always get past the delay, by pressing enter, as soon as you see the boot menu.
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The things you do not tell us, are usually the clue to fixing the problem.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be older.
This is not what I expected 
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