grub2 menu appears w/ only 1 OS installed. forces enter key press to continue

[KevinStarkey]

Binary package hint: grub2

Ubuntu 9.10
grub2 1.97 beta4
I expected the menu to either not appear at all or to only appear for a second or two.
Instead it lasted over 40 minutes. I turned on the computer and walked downstairs for 40 minutes. Every time since then it's the same thing. If I hit the enter key then it boot up as it should.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 27 12:50:27 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha i386 (20091018)
Package: grub2 (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: grub2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1428): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1428): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1552): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1536): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[BavarianPH (bavarianph)]

Similar to bug # 462888, which was fixed

by a clean install of Karmic 9.10 official release.

(beta version was of course deleted)

I will nominate for release.

BavarianPH,

Ubuntu forever!

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

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