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 system to reboot (even with nomce on the kernel cmdline). This often causes the system to reboot and sit at grub. We worked around the issue by adding this to /etc/default/grub: GRUB_TERMINAL='console serial" GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1" Then we can monitor and automate the serial console for when grub gets stuck. It took a while to figure out the correct grub settings as they too were undocumented. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1438275 Title: GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT prevents servers from booting To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1438275/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
