[Bug 1756659] Re: Please enable grub hidden timeout by default

[Michel-Ekimia]

** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Confirmed

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Title:
  Please enable grub hidden timeout by default

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Just a feedback from testing a 18.04 daily build image.

  I'm using the HP Microservers for years, they work pretty well with
  Ubuntu, except for a particular detail: The graphics of all
  generations of machines does not work out of the box with Ubuntu, it
  completely blocks and the X server hangs and even the console has
  trouble.

  Easy fix: the kernel options need  nosplash nomodeset   and everything
  is fine. Pretty simple.

  
  So usually it is easy to give that as additional parameters in grub when booting for the first time or log in over ssh and just add it to /etc/default/grub, to make things run. Usually not a problem since Microservers are usually used headless, i.e. without X11. 

  Now I installed a daily desktop build version of 18.04 (server edition
  not yet available) on a recent Gen10 machine, installation process
  smooth an without any problems, but then could not login after
  rebooting. I got the login mask from gdm, but after entering the
  password, the desktop froze, no way to login over console or network.

  Problem: It took me six unhealthy reboot attempts (each time with
  brute force reset of the machine by turning the power off, since no
  way to cleanly shut down or reboot the machine) to finally get into
  the grub menu and to enter these options, because grub is invisible at
  the default installation and so fast, that it is difficult to get the
  required key pressed at the small window in time where it's possible.
  After booting with nosplash nomodeset the machine was working normally
  and putting it into /etc/default/grub  solved the problem (once I
  managed to get into the machine).

  However, having to kill the machine the hard way several times just to
  get into the grub menu is not really clean and healthy. And IMHO an
  unexperienced user would not be able to get this running and cleanly
  installed. Which somehow contradicts the desktop edition's
  installation process designed to keep things easy and suitable for
  non-experts.

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