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[bug #42976] grub2 waits forever for keystroke before booting
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Bryce Nesbitt |
Subject: |
[bug #42976] grub2 waits forever for keystroke before booting |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:51:14 +0000 |
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Summary: grub2 waits forever for keystroke before booting
Project: GNU GRUB
Submitted by: brycenesbitt
Submitted on: Wed 13 Aug 2014 10:51:12 AM PDT
Category: Booting
Severity: Major
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: Software Error
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name:
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release:
Release: other
Reproducibility: Intermittent
Planned Release: None
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Details:
This is a big issue for unattended systems. It appears the grub2 defaults,
often picked up by the distributions, will wait forever for a keystroke at
boot time.
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We found three causes of the "headless server waits forever for someone to
press a key" problem with grub2 as configured by Ubuntu:
1) "apt-get updgrade" can trigger "grub-setup". If by chance there happens to
be a USB drive attached with Linux on it... grub will find it. And suddenly
you have two OS's and grub asks.
2) If a previous boot fails (for example because of a power failure in the
middle), the next boot waits forever for a keypress.
3) On a kiosk, if a visitor happens to press the shift key (or it is stuck) at
boot time, the machine won't finish the boot.
All three issues are problems for unattended/kiosk uses of Ubunu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/797544
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An improvement here would be a grub that by default boots no matter what, but
can be configured cleanly to hang instead.
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