Why do I get the Recovery Menu on every reboot?

[Tom H]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko at wonkology.org> wrote:
>
> I have Ubuntu 9.10 server running on one of our servers for a while now,
> and I want to duplicate it on the other servers. I do not want to do a
> reinstall and add every change I did to the system to the others again and
> again, so I created tar balls of the the partitions (using an LVM snapshot
> for consistency), and unpacked that on a new machine. After some slight
> changes (/etc/hosts and hostname, SSH keys, UDEV persistent net rules),
> the new system boots fine, except for one problem: On every reboot, I get
> the Recovery Menu. I cannot see all the options because some other boot
> process overwrites some of the lines, but I guess you know what I mean. I
> just press the enter key, and the system boots up just fine. Still, this
> would be quite annoying for a headless server when some person has to go
> down into the server room, plug in a keyboard and press the enter key when
> one of the servers has to be rebooted.
>
> So, does anyone have a quick idea what is going on? And how I can get rid
> of this menu?

It looks like your grub menu is defaulting to a "single"/"recovery" entry.

So the solution MAY be to run "sudo update-grub"