[Bug 1198697] [NEW] New install boots only to recovery mode

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An new installation of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was made on a clean newly
created virtual machine running under KVM. The profile for "Minimal
virtual machine" was chosen, the locale was set to sv_SE.UTF-8 and
everything else was left default.

Only one menuoption was visible in the grub boot menu which made Ubuntu
boot into recovery mode. This was found to be caused by a lone trailing
apostrophe on the "linux" line in every menuentry in grub.cfg. (This
swallowed a lot of configuration well into the second entry, for
recovery mode, and caused some of its options to be used.)

This line was generated by grub-mkconfig according to the configuration
generated by the installer. From /etc/default/grub:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="'"

(A lone apostrophe included in quotation marks.) This, needless to say,
is a broken configuration. I can not shed any light as to what made
Ubuntu installer choose this default value, but I can assist with
information to recreate it if needed.

This bug report should probably belong to Ubuntu Installer, but I
couldn't find it in the entry field.

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

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New install boots only to recovery mode
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1198697
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