Public bug reported: on my brother's PC, after powerup the grub menu appeared (instead of normally not showing it and booting the first entry). it wouldn't boot automatically and i had to press enter on the keyboard (unfortunately that meant: plugging a PS2 keyboard in the back of the pc, it didn't detect the USB keyboard). then i did a "dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc" and the problem is gone.
my brother has been applying updates as they come out. last one was on march 24th. let me know if you need more info (config files.. logs..). this is a pretty standard core2duo pc (no UEFI), single hard drive, nothing fancy. grub-pc version: 1.99-21ubuntu3 ubuntu version: 12.04 LTS amd64 ** 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/1185817 Title: doesn't boot automatically from the first entry, had to hit enter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1185817/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs