Yes this issue still happons in 14.04. We have an issue with our storage on an ESX enviroment ~100+ guest systems were forced to hard reboot. All the windows and centos systems had no issues, ubuntu was stuck at the grub screen and required manualy work.
This is crap and is bad for the ubunut brand! Please fix -- 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 ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs