[PLUG] Grub won't launch Debian until I hit return key

[Galen Seitz]

Tim wrote:
>> Is it possible this is related to grub's interaction with the BIOS?  I
>> figured by the time grub was displaying the menu it was fully in
>> control.
> 
> It would be bizarre, but if grub thinks a key had been pressed sometime
> after booting, it would certainly no longer boot on a timer.  It's a
> stretch, but maybe there's garbage in the keyboard interrupt handler's
> buffer left by the BIOS?
> 
> I found someone who had a similar issue and their grub would boot
> automatically when the timeout was set to 0:
> 
>   http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-370462.html
> 
> but not when it was set to anything else.  This probably isn't the
> solution you're looking for, but might be worth trying to see if it's
> got the same symptoms.
> 

I haven't been following this thread until now, but I can add this 
data point.  On my Thinkpad X40, when I interrupt the boot process 
prior to grub and then tell the bios to continue with normal booting, 
my grub timeout is apparently ignored and the default entry is 
immediately booted.

galen