Patrick: can you update to the current version of grub2 in karmic and do grub-install on your boot device (likely /dev/sda, but possibly not). I am unable to reproduce the behavior you see with the current version of grub2, but I did see it with an earlier install, and updating and installing the newer grub version made that behavior go away. There's also been a fair amount of changes in the handling of GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT since 1.97~beta2-2ubuntu2, and I suspect those changes addresses your issue. Thanks.
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Karmic) Status: Triaged => Incomplete -- Default grub2 configuration won't boot through to default OS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428570 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs -- universe-bugs mailing list universe-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs