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Thread: After a power outage, server gets hung in GRUB

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    After a power outage, server gets hung in GRUB

    When power was restored after an outage, my server (running Ubuntu server 9.10) started back up & got stuck in the GRUB menu ("Version 1.97~beta 4" I think) - it didn't do that countdown & auto-select the top item like I'm used to. Just stayed there, and since the server is headless, I had to dig out my monitor & hook it up to see what was wrong.

    Anybody know how that countdown & auto-select can be restored?

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    Re: After a power outage, server gets hung in GRUB

    I had the same problem today.

    grub2 in ubuntu 9.10 server is configured by default with GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0. If there is no keyboard attached (as in my headless setup), this causes grub2 to go to menu and stay there.
    Setting it to -1 gives me the desired sequence of menu, timeout and default choice.

    I don't know if this is a grub2 bug or not, but if this is intended grub2 behavior, the default config for a server distro such as ubuntu server (which you would expect to function headless out of the box) should be different.

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