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I may have seen something like this before but not recently for sure. I have 2 machines running on Ubuntu 14.04. The machines are not the same. 1 is a laptop and 1 is a desktop. One of the machines has nothing installed except the defaults. Today not 1 machine but both machines showed something like this ( I did not have a camera but this is what it looked like below ) and I selected the *Ubuntu option for both.

grub load

What could cause both machines to do this? Is there any possible security risks why it may have shown up for both? ( like tampering or rootkits )

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There is nothing to Panic about! , this is just the GRUB .

Somehow you have set GRUB timeout to a non-zero value on both of your machines.

To disable this Screen, follow these steps :

  • Open a terminal ctrl+altT

  • sudo nano /etc/default/grub Enter

  • You will see a command-line text editor. In that file, Search for GRUB_TIMEOUT= & Set GRUB_TIMEOUT=0 . This will make the GRUB screen stay for 0 seconds (i.e, It wont show up ) .

  • Now press ctrl+X followed by Y and then Enter (Saving Changes)

  • Now in your terminal, sudo update-grub Enter

Now you wont See Grub :)

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