Comment 19 for bug 428570

> [...] I'm wondering if you had read this:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1312798&highlight=grub

From that thread (#7):

> After a forced shutdown (power loss) Grub waits at the menu ignoring the timeout options, some sort of
> "do you want recovery or normal boot?"

My headless server was just bit by this. It's running 10.10 server x86, but has been upgraded through 3 releases.
The default/grub settings are identical to those listed first in the original report, except for GRUB_TIMEOUT=3.

As an incentive to get this fixed :-P here are pictures taken just before new year's, of an Arriva information kiosk probably having the same problem...

http://tullinup.dk/temp/2.jpg
http://tullinup.dk/temp/1.jpg

Nice to know they are using Ubuntu, though.