Grub to boot automatically after a crash

[Goh Lip]

On 03/12/2011 11:19 PM, Houcem HACHICHA wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have ubuntu 10.10 server installed and everytime they crash grub
> doesn't automatically reboot after 10 seconds or so, but waits for a
> user to select the kernel..
> Any idea how to configure grub to automatically boot even after a system
> crash?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --
> /Best Regards/
> /aimar/
>

Modify "recordfail", Perhaps these might help give you an idea....

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/447725
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/462888

I don't use recordfail myself {1}, so I am not sure of the details, hope 
you can take it from here.

Regards - Goh Lip

{1} I don't boot using any OS boot or grub.cfg to boot; I use my own and 
I don't include recordfail in it.