Always have to press key when reboot after power fail Opensuse 12.1

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#1

Since opensuse 12.1 I’ve always has to press a key after the power fail en the power came back, the grub menu always wait to choose an OS (or just press enter in my case)!
Of course I configured the BIOS to power on when power is back (after powerfail), and that works great so far… until i see the list from OS’es to boot.
It’s a remote PC and there’s nobody who can press a key so, how do I configure grub in opensuse 12.1 to never wait to boot up?
I found much solutins for ubuntu but can’t find the mentioned ubuntu grub files to change (in my Opensuse 12.1)?

PS: There is only one OS on that PC so its just my installation, I want that my installation always start-up no matter what’s happend before!

Thanks

#2

On Fri 08 Feb 2013 01:46:02 PM CST, jlavrysen wrote:

Since opensuse 12.1 I’ve always has to press a key after the power fail
en the power came back, the grub menu always wait to choose an OS (or
just press enter in my case)!
Of course I configured the BIOS to power on when power is back (after
powerfail), and that works great so far… until i see the list from
OS’es to boot.
It’s a remote PC and there’s nobody who can press a key so, how do I
configure grub in opensuse 12.1 to never wait to boot up?
I found much solutins for ubuntu but can’t find the mentioned ubuntu
grub files to change (in my Opensuse 12.1)?

PS: There is only one OS on that PC so its just my installation, I want
that my installation always start-up no matter what’s happend before!

Thanks

Hi
The file is /boot/grub/menu.lst there should be an entry;


default 0
timeout 8

Assuming the grub entry exists for menu item 0.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop
up 17:32, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.07, 0.05
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#3

Thanks for your quick reply!

Indeed in the menu.lst file are these lines:

default 0
timeout 6
##YaST - generic_mbr
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message
##YaST - activate

…

I think these settings (timeout and default) doesn’t work by powerfail or unexpected shutdown, I always have to press a key, if I wait, I think that I should wait until the sun goes out…
If I reboot the machine normally (in KDE) it waits for 6 (seconds?) and boots the correct (first/default) option!

I’m searching for an option to change for booting after powerfail or unexpected shutdown… (like* if recordfail* by ubuntu in the /etc/grub.d/00_header file …

Anyway thanks for your reply.

#4

On Fri 08 Feb 2013 03:06:02 PM CST, jlavrysen wrote:

Thanks for your quick reply!

Indeed in the menu.lst file are these linues:

default 0
timeout 6
##YaST - generic_mbr
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message
##YaST - activate

…

I think these settings (timeout and default) doesn’t work by powerfail
or unexpected shutdown, I always have to press a key, if I wait, I think
that I should wait until the sun goes out…
If I reboot the machine normally (in KDE) it waits for 6 (seconds?) and
boots the correct (first/default) option!

I’m searching for an option to change for booting after powerfail or
unexpected shutdown… (like- if recordfail- by ubuntu in the
/etc/grub.d/00_header file …

Anyway thanks for your reply.

Hi
That’s grub2…your still running legacy?

So what you describe is a BIOS setting (Sx settings), is the BIOS set to
halt on all errors, or just keyboard.

What system board are you running?

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop
up 18:33, 3 users, load average: 0.13, 0.10, 0.07
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile

#5

On Fri 08 Feb 2013 03:19:31 PM CST, malcolmlewis wrote:

[QUOTE]
On Fri 08 Feb 2013 03:06:02 PM CST, jlavrysen wrote:

Thanks for your quick reply!

Indeed in the menu.lst file are these linues:

default 0
timeout 6
##YaST - generic_mbr
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message
##YaST - activate

…

I think these settings (timeout and default) doesn’t work by powerfail
or unexpected shutdown, I always have to press a key, if I wait, I think
that I should wait until the sun goes out…
If I reboot the machine normally (in KDE) it waits for 6 (seconds?) and
boots the correct (first/default) option!

I’m searching for an option to change for booting after powerfail or
unexpected shutdown… (like- if recordfail- by ubuntu in the
/etc/grub.d/00_header file …

Anyway thanks for your reply.

Hi
That’s grub2…your still running legacy?

So what you describe is a BIOS setting (Sx settings), is the BIOS set to
halt on all errors, or just keyboard.

What system board are you running?

[/QUOTE]
Hi
The other thing is (since it’s remote[how remote? next room, across
town…]), your sure it’s not sitting at a prompt wanting to do a file
system check on a bad shutdown etc. If it is truly remote, then you
should consider a UPS for a controlled shutdown to ensure files(ystem)
won’t be corrupted.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop
up 19:09, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.09, 0.05
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile

#6

The PC is 80 km from my door… And is a (proxy)/router that also count and limits download (Internet) volume for 30 users…
And of course the BIOS is set to halt on no errors… (it’s a Gigabyte board)

It’s not a waiting prompt to check filesystem or any other OS thing, it’s surely a Grub2 prompt that waits for “enter”
The PC has a UPS now, but i mostly reboot a PC by shell-command…
Also if I reboot the PC by shell-prompt, Grub2 bootloader will always wait until a key is pressed…
I manage lots of remote Pc’s mostly running Ubuntu and there I can configure grub(2) to boot always whatever happend before… (see previous posts)
I just want to know how this goes on Suse. I’m searching for a few months now and didn’t find any solution yet, so I consider to just reconfigure this PC to Ubuntu…
But as IT specialist i really want to solve this problem.

#7

On 2013-02-10 20:46, jlavrysen wrote:
>
> The PC is 80 km from my door… And is a (proxy)/router that also count
> and limits download (Internet) volume for 30 users…
> And of course the BIOS is set to halt on no errors… (it’s a Gigabyte
> board)
>
> It’s not a waiting prompt to check filesystem or any other OS thing,
> it’s surely a Grub2 prompt that waits for “enter”

Can’t you phone someone to look what it displays?

The other thing is to set grub so that it connects via serial port to
another machine via which you can access it remotely. Years ago, on
emergencies, we connected via phone to a dedicated machine (actually a
Cisco thing) via which we could reach the console of the rest of
machines and solve the problem.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

#8

On Sun 10 Feb 2013 07:46:02 PM CST, jlavrysen wrote:

The PC is 80 km from my door… And is a (proxy)/router that also count
and limits download (Internet) volume for 30 users…
And of course the BIOS is set to halt on no errors… (it’s a Gigabyte
board)

It’s not a waiting prompt to check filesystem or any other OS thing,
it’s surely a Grub2 prompt that waits for “enter”
The PC has a UPS now, but i mostly reboot a PC by shell-command…
Also if I reboot the PC by shell-prompt, Grub2 bootloader will always
wait until a key is pressed…
I manage lots of remote Pc’s mostly running Ubuntu and there I can
configure grub(2) to boot always whatever happend before… (see
previous posts)
I just want to know how this goes on Suse. I’m searching for a few
months now and didn’t find any solution yet, so I consider to just
reconfigure this PC to Ubuntu…
But as IT specialist i really want to solve this problem.

Hi
12.1 uses legacy grub?

If the default entries are set in menu.lst all should just work… a
very strange occurrence IMHO.

Can you post the full menu.lst file?

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop
up 3 days 7:10, 4 users, load average: 0.05, 0.04, 0.05
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile