[Bug 797544] Re: grub2 waits forever for keystroke before booting default OS. headless server. hang.

[steverweber]

Yes this issue still happons in 14.04.

We have an issue with our storage on an ESX enviroment ~100+ guest systems were forced to hard reboot.
All the windows and centos systems had no issues,  ubuntu was stuck at the grub screen and required manualy work.

This is crap and is bad for the ubunut brand!

Please fix

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Title:
  grub2 waits forever for keystroke before booting default OS.  headless
  server. hang.

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub2

  After a seemingly-routine "apt-get update" on an Ubuntu 10.10  server, the machine hangs on boot. 
  It is sitting at the grub2 prompt, waiting in vain for someone to come along and press <enter>.

  I have tried two workarounds:

  ---------------------------------------------
  Edit /etc/grub.d/00_header to remove the check for recordfail in:

  make_timeout ()
  {
      echo "set timeout=1"
  }
  --------------------------------------------------------------------
  In /etc/default/grub set
   GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=2
  ---------------------------------
  Then "sudo update-grub"

  Now I'm pretty dang stuck.  There is plenty of forum activity on this
  issue, but no true solutions.

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