SOLVED (sort of): We found three causes of the "headless server waits forever for someone to press a key" problem with grub2:
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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/797544 Title: grub2 waits forever for keystroke before booting default OS. headless server. hang. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/797544/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
