boot screen missing on 10,04 with intel graphics

[NoOp]

On 08/31/2010 10:03 AM, Mike McMullin wrote:
> On August 31, 2010 03:10:51 am Monezz wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Mike McMullin <mmcmullin at cogeco.ca> wrote:
>> > so I'd also like to set the delay for the default
>> > boot to at least 30 seconds or so.
>> 
>> change the GRUB_TIMEOUT setting to 30 in  /etc/default/grub
>> and run: sudo update-grub
> 
>   Okay did that, then shut down and booted, still no screen until the Ubuntu 
> with dots underneath it appears.
> 
>> > First off there is no boot screen, the display is black then it
>> > shows a normal 80x60 scroll of ongoing processes followed by a flicker
>> > and the resolution changes to high.
>> 
>> I also experience some wierd screens during boot on my laptop with ati
>> card (modified by hp to make life even worse)
>> I suspect it has something to do with the timing of loading the
>> graphics driver in the kernel.
>> Its just a few seconds so I choose to ignore it :)
> 
>   This system has Intel Graphics, my eMachines laptop has the ATI, and the 
> same quirks, so I've actually got 2 systems to solve his on.
> 

See:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
for troubleshooting advise.