Ubuntu: I am trying to figure out how to get my sever to come back up to operation on a power failure.

Question

I am trying to figure out how to get my sever to come back up to operation on a power failure. Right now it comes up and gives me three choices. I don't want the bloody choices I just want it to straight reboot so can run it headless!

Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

Have a look at
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As an example, here are the lines which might be relevant of /etc/default/grub of a headless server:

GRUB_DEFAULT=1
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=1
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=1
GRUB_TERMINAL=console
GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT=5

Comments

You don't even need to wait the single second for GRUB to display the menu, and then another second for the default choice to be run - just set GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT and GRUB_TIMEOUT to 0. And of course run 'update-grub' after editing.