[mdlug] grub boot loader does not count down

[Stan Green]

Depends on the key. Down/up arrow will abort the count down. Whereas Enter would 
boot the highlighted OS.

On Saturday 08 October 2011 12:38:11 pm R KANNAN wrote:
> But wouldn't a key stoke cause it to boot in the default OS? It just sits
> there,
>
> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Mat Enders <mat.enders at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It may be that sometimes it is receiving an inadvertent key stroke
> > causing it to wait either from yourself or a flakey keyboard
> > Mat Enders from my BlackBerry®
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: R KANNAN <rk111810 at gmail.com>
> > Sender: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org
> > Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 09:19:06
> > To: MDLUG's Main discussion list<mdlug at mdlug.org>
> > Reply-To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
> > Subject: [mdlug] grub boot loader does not count down
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have installed mythbuntu 11.04 on a laptop and I find that the Grub
> > boot loader screen does not (always) show a countdown. It just waits
> > there with the default OS (ubuntu) highlighted till a return key is
> > pressed. My /etc/default/grub has the following line
> >
> > GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
> >
> > I see the countdown from 10 seconds appear a few times. Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks
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