[Bug 580752] [NEW] grub menu does not appear on boot

[josephpatterson]

Public bug reported:

I am using a Dell E6500 Latitude laptop with Ubuntu 9.10 installed. The
disk is built with an unused partition for possibly loading a windows OS
in the future.When the system powers up, it gives a grub loading message
and proceeds directly to loading a default linux kernel without
displaying a list of kernel choices (i.e., the grub loader menu fails to
come up).

I expected the grub loader menu to come up. It did not.

If I install an upstream kernel that should add an entry to the grub
loader menu for the new kernel, the grub loader menu still does not come
up and permit selection of the new kernel or the original kernel.

This problem never occurs when an existing windows partition is present
on the disk at build time. Since linux normally offers several boot
choices, this is a defect in the boot sequence and needs fixing. This
problem also occurs for ubuntu 10.4.

The structure of the /boot/grub directory is radically different from
the 9.04 release so it is confusing to see causes. The 9.10 /boot/grub
directory fails to have a /boot/grub/menu.lst file which I would expect
to see present.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 2/2
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0:  joseph     1681 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf6adc000 irq 21'
   Mixer name	: 'Intel G45 DEVCTG'
   Components	: 'HDA:111d76b2,1028024f,00100302 HDA:80862802,80860101,00100000'
   Controls      : 32
   Simple ctrls  : 19
Date: Fri May 14 18:59:26 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=fde3fc6f-7721-45f7-bb37-02c5e84c42ae
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.2)
IwConfig:
 lo        no wireless extensions.
 
 eth0      no wireless extensions.
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6500
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-21-generic 2.6.31-21.59
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-21-generic root=UUID=c37fba71-bb77-4072-b876-912eb377e3cb ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-21.59-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-21-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.26
RfKill:
 0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
 	Soft blocked: no
 	Hard blocked: yes
SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-21-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1694): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1798): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1793): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (firefox:1870): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
dmi.bios.date: 07/31/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A14
dmi.board.name: 0W612R
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA14:bd07/31/2009:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6500:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0W612R:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6500
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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