[Bug 1413397] [NEW] Minimal utopic/14.10 install boots to blank console

[Daniel Richard G.]

Public bug reported:

A fresh, up-to-date, minimal (no GUI) install of Ubuntu Utopic (14.10)
results in a blank (completely black) console.

No kernel messages flash on the screen, no text-mode start-up screen
(with the "Ubuntu" text in the middle of the screen) appears, nothing---
just black.

The console is actually switched to tty7, as if the X server were about
to start. But because there is no GUI, the console should be switched to
tty1. (Pressing Alt-F1 or Ctrl-Alt-Right achieves this manually.)

This is a regression from Trusty (14.04), which had the correct
behavior.

This was tested on a VirtualBox amd64 install. The /etc/default/grub
file has not been touched.

At first blush, this appears to be a recurrence of bug 761830.

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

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Title:
  Minimal utopic/14.10 install boots to blank console

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  A fresh, up-to-date, minimal (no GUI) install of Ubuntu Utopic (14.10)
  results in a blank (completely black) console.

  No kernel messages flash on the screen, no text-mode start-up screen
  (with the "Ubuntu" text in the middle of the screen) appears, nothing
  ---just black.

  The console is actually switched to tty7, as if the X server were
  about to start. But because there is no GUI, the console should be
  switched to tty1. (Pressing Alt-F1 or Ctrl-Alt-Right achieves this
  manually.)

  This is a regression from Trusty (14.04), which had the correct
  behavior.

  This was tested on a VirtualBox amd64 install. The /etc/default/grub
  file has not been touched.

  At first blush, this appears to be a recurrence of bug 761830.

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