Comment 4 for bug 872244

Agree: A more stripped-down grub2-package is appropriate for servers.

Also, for either servers or desktops: There should be a setting in /etc/default/grub, called GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT or GRUB_TIMEOUT_AFTER_BOOTFAIL or something. This is today effectively hard coded to -1 (forever). And it is this hardcoding many users fiddle with. Conclusion: go from hardcoded setting to configurable option.

I propose that the bootfail-timeout is set to 30 sec by default for servers, perhaps also for clients.

This is not unlike how it is on a different OS we all know: after a failed boot, you're halted for 30sec at the boot menu, but then the default entry boots.