Change GRUB timeout in OpenWrt to speed up boot process

Recently I’m playing with my OpenWrt router on a PVE machine, and I noticed that there’s a 5 second timeout in the boot procedure.

It’s important to have a router boot up fast. So I searched online how to change the timeout setting. Unfortunately OpenWrt isn’t Debian, while most tutorials I found online is Debian or RHEL. So stuff works quite differently.

After some digging I found that you can actually override /boot/grub/grub.cfg, because there’s no grub-mkconfig. But /boot was read-only for me, so I first had to run

$ mount -o remount,rw /boot

And finally I could do

$ vim /boot/grub/grub.cfg

According to the GRUB documentation:

'GRUB_TIMEOUT'
     Boot the default entry this many seconds after the menu is
     displayed, unless a key is pressed.  The default is '5'.  Set to
     '0' to boot immediately without displaying the menu, or to '-1' to
     wait indefinitely.

     If 'GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE' is set to 'countdown' or 'hidden', the
     timeout is instead counted before the menu is displayed.

I set GRUB_TIMEOUT to 0, and it worked flawlessly.