[Bug 1438275] Re: GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT prevents servers from booting

2015-07-07 Thread Robie Basak
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1443735 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1443735 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1443735 recordfail false positive causes headless servers to hang on boot by default -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1438275] Re: GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT prevents servers from booting

2015-03-30 Thread Steve Langasek
If you really want to alter the behavior of grub on failed boot, so that it will non-interactively reboot instead of waiting indefinitely, you can also just set a different value for GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT in /etc/default/grub (instead of the default of -1). -- You received this bug

[Bug 1438275] Re: GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT prevents servers from booting

2015-03-30 Thread Tobin Davis
Maybe instead of 'degrading the experience', you can just document the change so that people using this OS for testing systems can automate around it without having to resort to serial port output scanning and lab wiring contortion. In our test environment, we often see a MCE that forces the

[Bug 1438275] Re: GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT prevents servers from booting

2015-03-30 Thread Steve Langasek
The behavior you describe is the result of a deliberate design decision, not a bug. - A power cut after the system has fully booted does not result in a GRUB prompt. - A power cut before the system has fully booted is indistinguishable from any other boot failure. The only thing we can say