Grub2 stops in the menu and waits for keypress after dirty power-off

[Chris Jones]

> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:25:37 +0100
> From: Petr Jake? <petr.jakes at tpc.cz>
> Subject: Grub2 stops in the menu and waits for keypress after dirty
> 	power-off
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> Cc: Dufek Pavel <pavel.dufek at tpc.cz>
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> Hi,
> We have made a clean install minimal install of the
> ubuntu-9.10-server-i386.
> 
> After the dirty power off (PC disconnected from the electricity when Ubuntu
> was working - no halt command issued before the electricity disconnecting)
> Grub2 stops in the menu and requires manual action (pressing the Enter key).
> 
> We have found this a real pain for the server. Our point of view is server
> has to (always) start without any manual assistance.
> 
> It was really not easy to find the solution
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1373965
> 
> We think even if Grub2 stops in the menu, it has to signalize somehow why.
> Or the server distro has to have different boot-up behavior than desktop.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Petr

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May I ask why you are turning the poweroff on your server anyway?

What kind of server are you running that requires a poweroff?

I know this beside the point, but I'm just curious as to why you'd
choose to switch it off.

Cheers.




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