GRUB countdown in VirtualBox

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vbzh
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GRUB countdown in VirtualBox

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GRUB is a boot loader . When starting the computer , GRUB will show a sentence "The highlighted entry will be executed automatically in 5s" . Looks like this https://i.stack.imgur.com/66H99.png . VirtualBox maybe has such a bug that causes the sentence missing when it's counting down at 5s . But after counting down at 5s , the sentence appears normally .. Both my host OS and my guest OS are GNU/Linux. Only guest OS has the problem , my host OS Never has the problem .
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Re: GRUB countdown in VirtualBox

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Are you "vbgaofei"? Did you also file ticket #17473? They look suspiciously similar... In any event, the answers are the same as the answers on the ticket:
VirtualBox doesn't have a clue that you have GRUB installed (or anything else for that matter). What GRUB does or doesn't do, that's a GRUB issue.
If you can, please provide clear steps to reproduce the problem and show indeed that it's a VirtualBox problem, otherwise I believe that the ticket could be "Invalid".
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Re: GRUB countdown in VirtualBox

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However I don't know how to reproduce the problem . Do you mean I must read the source code of GRUB ? It's an open-source software , but I'm not a programmer
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Re: GRUB countdown in VirtualBox

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If, and it is a mighty big if, this is a VirtualBox issue then we need to have some idea as to how to reproduce it. Start with the basics... host Linux distribution and kernel version, same for the guest OS and VirtualBox version.

-Andy.
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vbzh
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Re: GRUB countdown in VirtualBox

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Host distribution is ArchLinux or Paranola . The first distribution is popular, but Parabola is unpopular . https://parabola.nu . Kernel version is about Linux 4.12 or 4.13 , VirtualBox version is shown in the bug ticket .
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Re: GRUB countdown in VirtualBox

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When Andy talked about "how to reproduce it, start with the basics", he didn't only mean the guest OS. He meant the actual steps to actually reproduce the problem. Something like:
  • Download the Arch Linux ISO version ... from ... The ##-bit one, named ...
  • Boot into ...
  • Do ... then ...
  • Perform ...
  • Then you'll see the problem ...
PS: "VirtualBox version is shown in the bug ticket" is much longer, and more difficult than "5.1.26". And we won't have to go hunting around in the bug tracker... Think about it...
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Re: GRUB countdown in VirtualBox

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There must be ArchLinux or Parabola 64-bit ,I didn’t use any 32-bit OSes with modern computers . I’m not sure and didn’t monitor the details of how to see the problem, I only remember that I created snapshots and sometimes instantly shutdown the VMs without to type shutdown command in the Guest OS . This means to click the close button on the window . Yes ,I installed GUI on my Host OS so VirtualBox can show windows .
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Re: GRUB countdown in VirtualBox

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These are not instructions to reproduce the problem, they are fragments of your memory. And a problem that cannot be reproduced, it is NOT a problem that can be fixed.
Do NOT send me Personal Messages (PMs) for troubleshooting, they are simply deleted.
Do NOT reply with the "QUOTE" button, please use the "POST REPLY", at the bottom of the form.
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Re: GRUB countdown in VirtualBox

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andyp73 wrote:If, and it is a mighty big if, this is a VirtualBox issue then we need to have some idea as to how to reproduce it. Start with the basics... host Linux distribution and kernel version, same for the guest OS and VirtualBox version.

-Andy.
You can download and install a screen recorder ,and use screen recorder to record VirtualBox usages . I literally saw such GRUB countdown problem , because screen recorder can record everything on the screen .
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Re: GRUB countdown in VirtualBox

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VirtualBox offers three modes to start VMs ,they’re normal start,detachable start and headless start .Guest OS loses its user interface so briefly every second when GRUB’s counting down. Only in detachable mode, not in normal mode. Perhaps ,this problem relates to the topic .
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