[barosl]

I second that this is pretty annoying. The problem is that Ubuntu's grub.cfg is configured to wait forever until the user manually chooses a new boot option if the last booting failed. However, sometimes a temporary error can happen during the booting process, and this will make the server hang after the next reboot. This is probably not what server users want.

In addition, I think this behavior is not ideal for desktop users either, because (1) spurious errors can also happen in desktop and in that case waiting a few seconds is better than waiting indefinitely, and (2) it is not uncommon to use Wake-on-LAN nowadays.

But I'm not sure this problem is unique to Ubuntu, as Ubuntu shares much of its codebase with Debian. Does anybody know this is also problematic in other distributions?

[jhasse]

It looks like this will be fixed in 15.10: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ubuntu-15...

[beagle3]

When I checked (in 2013), Ubuntu had this problem, and Debian did not.

Ubuntu shares a lot with debian, but grub configuration is one thing that Ubuntu appear to be doing on their own.