Re: cannot set timeout in grub2

[Bob Morris]

sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc never asked anything but the command
line questions.  However
sudo grub-install /dev/sdb  executed without error and the grub splash
screen now shows 1.99-21ubuntu3.1 and has the expected timeout
behavior.  The only remaining issue is that before grub shows the
splash screen it reports
fd0 read error   and   fd1 read error

This seems to be an oft reported issue, and unless ill-advised, my
inclination is to live with until Grub 2.0 is released for ubuntu.

Thanks for the help.

Bob



On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Bob Morris <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks.  Can go further later today.  Meanwhile, grubenv contains exactly
>
> # GRUB Environment Block
> #######################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Jordan Uggla <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Bob Morris <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I updated a Dell PowerEdge 2950 from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04, going
>>> through each offered update. On the first, something whacked GRUB, but
>>> I recovered it with boot-repair. (What a fantastic resource!) I ran
>>> boot-repair from a LiveCD, that is from Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop CD
>>> running off the CD. (Note that the ubuntu on the hard drive at the
>>> point was 11.10.)
>>>
>>> After the successful boot-repair, the grub did not time out and I had
>>> to explicitly select the kernel from the menu after waiting as much as
>>> 5-10 min.  I opted to address this when I got all the way to Ubuntu
>>> 12.04. Each of the intermediate boots had the same issue, but all
>>> booted up all the way when I selected the first menu option.  Ubuntu,
>>> with Linux 2.6.35-32-server.
>>>
>>> With 12.04 running, I edited /etc/default/grub to contain
>>>
>>> GRUB_DEFAULT=0
>>> #GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
>>> #GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=
>>> GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
>>> GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
>>> GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
>>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
>>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
>>>
>>>
>>> and ran sudo update-grub
>>>
>>> No countdown appears on the grub menu, and nothing happens unless I
>>> select an entry and press enter.
>>
>> This sounds like you've run into a problem with Ubuntu's "recordfail"
>> feature. Can you post the contents of /boot/grub/grubenv after a full
>> boot? (it should *not* contain "recordfail=1", but probably does).
>>
>>>
>>> Now here's the final curiousity:
>>> The grub splash screen reports version 1.98+20100804+5ubuntu3.3 but
>>> grub-install -v reports 1.99-21ubuntu3.1
>>
>> Then you need to make sure that grub-install is run against the proper
>> devices during upgrades of Ubuntu's grub-pc package. You can do this
>> by running "sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc", this command will ask you
>> multiple questions, for the questions about linux cmdline simply leave
>> the settings at their default. For the question about install devices
>> make sure that any drives which your BIOS might boot from are selected
>> (and *no* partitions).
>>
>> --
>> Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net)
>
>
>
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-- 
Robert A. Morris

Emeritus Professor  of Computer Science
UMASS-Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd
Boston, MA 02125-3390

IT Staff
Filtered Push Project
Harvard University Herbaria
Harvard University

email: address@hidden
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http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram
===
The content of this communication is made entirely on my
own behalf and in no way should be deemed to express
official positions of The University of Massachusetts at Boston or
Harvard University.