Grub problem
Frank Tanner III
pctech at mybellybutton.com
Wed May 9 21:31:24 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 16:49 -0400, Tod wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 21:08 -0400, Tod wrote:
> >> Tod Merley wrote:
> >>> On 5/3/07, Tod <tod at stthomasepc.org> wrote:
> >>>> I'm trying to stabilize a RH9 machine so I can upgrade to FC6. For some
> >>>> reason GRUB is ignoring the timeout and upon reboot leaves the boot
> >>>> screen up without ever booting the default image.
> >>>>
> >>>> Has anyone ever heard of this. Anything I can check?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks - Tod
> >>>>
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> >>>>
> >>> Hi Tod!
> >>>
> >>> I am not sure exactly what you are saying.
> >>>
> >>> Can you hit a key (in particular escape) when the boot screen
> >>> (splash?) first comes up and see the boot menu?
> >>
> >> I'm actually assisting a remote user. The problem is that if the
> >> machine reboots, which it magically seems to be doing every Saturday,
> >> and there is no one around, it sits at the Grub splash screen until
> >> someone shows up on Monday and selects a kernel to boot to. After that
> >> everything is fine.
> >
> > I'd be checking every crontab I can find for the reboot issue. I'd also
> > be checking the machine for rootkits and other malware. This sounds
> > like the machine's "owned" by a hacker.
> >
>
> I did and found nothing, very frustrating. Any ideas on what to look
> for that I may have missed?
>
> I'm going to do a clamscan tonight to see if that turns up anything.
>
>
How is the power in the room where the machine is located? Is it
possible that there is a brown-out condition causing it? How about the
possibility that someone is un-plugging the machine temporarily?
As funny as this sounds, we had a cleaning person that was unplugging a
server from a PDU to plug in his fricken buffer when he came through to
buff the hall-way outside of the server room. We chased our tails for
MONTHS trying to figure out the cause, until one of our junior
sys-admins had to stay late one night to work on an unrelated issue.
Needless to say we had a few harsh words for the manager of the cleaning
crew.
> Tod
>
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