Comment 4 for bug 669481

Same problem here. I've suffered from the servers which are stuck in the GRUB phase occasionally. Now I know the reason. The recordfail feature can be a useful, but setting the timeout to -1 is too excessive in my opinion.

As the above stated, changing it to a reasonable value, or at least making an option to change the behavior in /etc/default/grub would greatly help. These changes are particularly more important in the server edition.