GRUB Automatic Boot After Crash

[Karmic Kiwi]

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 Server, and anytime my system crashes and starts back up, GRUB prompts for an OS to run. Since I'm usually not at my server to press enter, how do I get it to boot automatically?

[mathgeek2000]

In /etc/default/grub:
the line

GRUB_TIMEOUT=600

Time in seconds.

[Karmic Kiwi]

In /etc/default/grub:
the line

Time in seconds.

Thanks, but that seems to be the timeout for a normal boot, but that seems to be overrridden in case of a system crash.

I know I can edit my /etc/boot/grub/grub.cfg:

if [ "$recordfail}" = 1 ]; then
set timeout=-1

And set the timeout to something other than -1. But if I do that, would my changes be overwritten every time I update GRUB?

[Krytarik]

It seems like modifying those part of "/etc/grub.d/00_header" would be the trick then:

cat << EOF
if [ \${recordfail} = 1 ]; then
  set timeout=-1
else
  set timeout=${GRUB_TIMEOUT}
fi
EOF

But I guess those modification gets reverted when the package "grub-common" gets upgraded, however that seems not to happen too often.

Greetings.

[Karmic Kiwi]

It seems like modifying those part of "/etc/grub.d/00_header" would be the trick then:

cat << EOF
if [ \${recordfail} = 1 ]; then
  set timeout=-1
else
  set timeout=${GRUB_TIMEOUT}
fi
EOF

But I guess those modifications get reverted when the package "grub-common" gets upgraded, however that seems not to happen too often.

Greetings.

Awesome, that seems to do the trick. I'll just have to mess around with it. Thanks!