[Bug 1198697] Re: New install boots only to recovery mode

[Joseph Salisbury]

** Package changed: linux (Ubuntu) => ubiquity (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => New

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Title:
  New install boots only to recovery mode

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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.

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