[mythtv-users] OT: Wierd boot issue

[Michael Watson]

On 30/03/2012 9:01 AM, Rick Lane wrote:
>
>
> On Mar 29, 2012 7:51 PM, "Neil Cooper" <neilcoo at yahoo.co.uk 
> <mailto:neilcoo at yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
>
> >
> > Every now and again when it wakes itself up, instead of booting 
> properly it fails somewhere at the grub stage. The screen is 
> completely black other than a message "File not found".
> >
> > After power cycling (all you can do from that point), the grub boot 
> menu appears and doesn't time out even though its set to.
> >
> >
> > Thanks guys,
> > Neil Cooper.
> >
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> I fell into grubs new trap too.
>
> To disable:
>
> open the grub header file:
> sudo nano /etc/grub.d/00_header
>
> Line 242 looks like this:
> set timeout=-1
>
> Change to:
> set timeout=10
>
> and then save the file and run
>
> sudo update-grub
>
> This will mean if your boot fails, it won't disable default selection 
> completely, it'll just pause for ten seconds and then boot as normal.
>
> Can't really help with your other issue though. Could it be a flaky 
> sata cable? I thought my disk was dying on me for a while when I was 
> getting randomly disappearing disks at boot and it turned out to be 
> the cable. At least its a cheap enough test...
>
> Rick
>
>
Could possibly be a faulty power supply, if problem remains after 
swapping sata cable, try a different power supply (if you have one, or 
can borrow one)

Michael