[Bug 850908] [NEW] grub refuses to display at all, but still runs

[WarriorIng64]

Public bug reported:

>From when I've installed the 9/9/2011 daily build of Oneiric in a dual-
boot setup alongside Natty on my desktop, I could not get grub to
display at all for me. During the time when it should be showing, my
monitor instead shows a blank screen with an "Input Not Supported" error
box (see http://i.stack.imgur.com/RWNmV.jpg).

When I don't do anything, Oneiric continues to boot as normal (with the
exception of Plymouth not showing either, as described in Bug #850895).
If I hold down the Shift key during boot, I still get the error screen
and no grub, but boot won't continue until I press Enter, which suggests
to me that grub is still running even if I can't see it.

If this were a single-OS computer like it was before when I was only
running Natty, this might not be a huge problem, but it is now that I am
dual-booting with Oneiric, and I imagine it would also tick off a lot of
people who dual-boot with Windows. I can't get into my Natty install
anymore because of this.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: grub2 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 15 09:21:29 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110909)
SourcePackage: grub2
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-13 (2 days ago)

** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric running-unity

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Title:
  grub refuses to display at all, but still runs

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  From when I've installed the 9/9/2011 daily build of Oneiric in a
  dual-boot setup alongside Natty on my desktop, I could not get grub to
  display at all for me. During the time when it should be showing, my
  monitor instead shows a blank screen with an "Input Not Supported"
  error box (see http://i.stack.imgur.com/RWNmV.jpg).

  When I don't do anything, Oneiric continues to boot as normal (with
  the exception of Plymouth not showing either, as described in Bug
  #850895). If I hold down the Shift key during boot, I still get the
  error screen and no grub, but boot won't continue until I press Enter,
  which suggests to me that grub is still running even if I can't see
  it.

  If this were a single-OS computer like it was before when I was only
  running Natty, this might not be a huge problem, but it is now that I
  am dual-booting with Oneiric, and I imagine it would also tick off a
  lot of people who dual-boot with Windows. I can't get into my Natty
  install anymore because of this.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: grub2 (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Sep 15 09:21:29 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110909)
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-13 (2 days ago)

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