[mdlug] grub boot loader does not count down

[R KANNAN]

Apparently I have a flakey keyboard in the laptop. Is there a way to
force grub to boot on the default OS. I have ACPI wakeup set on this machine
as given in

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup

and I would like it to boot at scheduled time.

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Stan Green <Stan at mcomputersolutions.com>wrote:

> 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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