[Bug 1318865] Re: The grub boot menu is often not drawn or visible

[Ethan Blanton]

Hi, sorry for the delay -- I was out of the country when this was asked,
and lost track of it by the time I had returned.

The system does boot without navigating the menu.  The menu simply does
not appear onscreen and it is difficult to get it to come up.  I have
manually changed nothing related to grub.

I am now running 15.04, and this problem persists, except that the
screen border nor background changes color; it simply stays black.

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Title:
  The grub boot menu is often not drawn or visible

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  On most boots of my machine, the grub boot menu is not drawn.  The
  background color appears as a thin border around the edge of the
  screen, but no menu is visible and grub does not appear to respond to
  keyboard input.  The system boots normally after this, but only to the
  default entry.

  At one time this appeared to be correlated to boot vs. reboot, with
  boots working normally and reboots displaying no menu, but I have also
  seen cold boots where the menu does not appear so I no longer believe
  this to be the case.  However, it does seem that the menu is more
  likely to display on a cold boot than a reboot.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: grub-pc 2.02~beta2-9
  Uname: Linux 3.15.0-031500rc4-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon May 12 21:23:34 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-25 (17 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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