Public bug reported: As reported on stackoverflow at this page http://serverfault.com/questions/269387/how-to-force-grub-to-boot-no- human-input-regardless-previous-booting-failure if a power cut affects an ubuntu server it gets stuck on grub menu at next reboot waiting for a user to press "enter" to make the server boot.
This is a very odd behavior expecially if there are not integrity problems and the system can boot without user intervention. I've tested this bug on ubuntu oneiric beta 1 but it seems that all the versions with grub2 are affected. To reproduce the bug just install a new ubuntu server, cause a power cut, make it boot. Surfing online i found two solutions to this problem. First solution involves to modify /etc/grub.d/00_header at line 233 such that: set timeout=-1 becomes: set timeout=0 and then run update-grub. Second solution is to set GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=-1 as suggested on ubuntu forums at this page http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1403517 but i've not tried this solution yet. ** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/841009 Title: stuck on grub menu after power cut *very dangerous for servers* To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/841009/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
