[Bug 761830] Re: grub2 still hands off to blank tty7 on non-Server command-line-only systems

[Scott McLeod]

@Eliah Kagan

The netboot image can be obtained through these URLs

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso

Essentially it's a super stripped down installer (In this case around
22MB) that ensures an extremely fresh install.

http://psung.blogspot.com/2009/01/ubuntu-netboot-installers.html

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Title:
  grub2 still hands off to blank tty7 on non-Server command-line-only
  systems

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub2

  Using the Natty Beta 2 Alternate CD, I installed two command-line only
  systems, and updated each of them (with "sudo apt-get update" followed
  by "sudo apt-get upgrade"). One was with the amd64 CD, on a Sony Vaio
  VGN-NW310F. The other was with the i386 CD, on a VMware Workstation
  7.1.4 build-385536 virtual machine (host OS: Natty amd64 with kernel
  version 2.6.38-8-generic). In both cases, when boot-up completed, I
  was on tty7 with a blank, black screen, with the exception of a
  blinking cursor at the upper-left corner. Pressing Alt+F1 through
  Alt+F6 gave me usable virtual terminals, and pressing Alt+F7 brought
  me back to that black screen. This is almost exactly the same behavior
  as I reported in bug 695658; later, a similar bug which was decided to
  also be about this issue was reported as bug 700686 and subsequently
  fixed, and bug 695658 was marked as a duplicate of bug 700686.
  Suspecting that this may be the same issue (i.e., that those bugs were
  perhaps not fully fixed), I ran this command on both systems:

  grep handoff /etc/grub.d/10_linux

  And, confirming my suspicions, I got this out on both systems:

      GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="$GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
  vt.handoff=7"

  I posted about this in bug 700686 and Colin Watson said I should open
  a new bug, so that's what this bug is. The information attached by
  apport is from the i386 system (i.e., the virtual machine). In order
  to make reporting this bug convenient, I did install two additional
  packages and their dependencies--openssh-server, and apport.

  I have not yet tested this in a newly installed Ubuntu Server system.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: grub-pc 1.99~rc1-12ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Apr 15 10:29:08 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110413)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)