When booting, grub gives the menu OK, but doesn't show a countdown to boot the default selection, and only boots when kernel is manually selected Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Reboot 2. Wait for grub menu to come up 3. Wait (for ever) for default item to be run Actual Results: Sat at menu screen. Keyboard worked normally, manually selecting an option worked. Expected Results: Shown a line "will start in 10 seconds", then as that counted down to zero booted the default option /boot/grub/menu.lst timeout 10 default 0 title gentoo root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 gentoo=nodevfs root=/dev/hda5 title windows root (hd0,1) chainloader +1 title gentoo 2.4 root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/kernel-2.4.26-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hda5 # end of /boot/grub/menu.lst root@earlgrey root # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 505996 141304 364692 28% / /dev/vg/g_usr 4194172 3702076 492096 89% /usr /dev/vg/home 1048540 50860 997680 5% /home /dev/vg/g_var 8388348 129376 8258972 2% /var /dev/vg/g_opt 2097084 448496 1648588 22% /opt none 95040 0 95040 0% /dev/shm root@earlgrey root # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://darjeeling/portage" USE="X alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt crypto cups doc dvd dvdread emacs encode esd f77 fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gpg gpm gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python quicktime readline scanner sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype usb x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Same problem has been seen on Fedora FC3: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=142069
what version of grub is this? LOL I have tested for this bug on 10 different systems and have yet to see it appear, if you have not done so try testing unstable package if it still persist report back.
Same problem here on my router! Very annoying, I have to tap enter every time I start this box :-( >>>>>>>>"/boot/grub/grub.conf" color white/blue black/light-gray timeout 5 #default 0 title Linux (2.6.7-hardened-r17) kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.7-hardened-r17 root=/dev/hda5 <<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>"etcat -v grub" [ Results for search key : grub ] [ Candidate applications found : 5 ] Only printing found installed programs. * sys-boot/grub : [ ] 0.92-r1 (0) [ ] 0.93.20030118 (0) [ ] 0.94-r1 (0) [M~ ] 0.94-r2 (0) [ I] 0.95.20040823 (0) <<<<<<<< I'm testing 0.95.xxx, but same problem! I'll go back to 0.94-r1 soon. >>>>>>>>"emerge info" Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.7-hardened-r17 i586) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-hardened-r17 i586 Pentium 75 - 200 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 acl apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk2 hardened ipv6 jpeg kde libwww mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib" <<<<<<<< It's a Pentium-90. X86 (stable), hardened tool-chain, hardened-dev-sources. I'm having some trouble with PaX when updating grub ("setup (hd0)" crashes) but that's a different story... I think I'll have to go back to lilo... :-( Greetings, Florian
re-open if 0.96 doesnt do it right
