Grub not working

[Jens Müller]

Am 05.05.2011 17:17, schrieb Tom H:
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Jens Müller <blog at tessarakt.de> wrote:
>> On 05.05.2011 16:21, dave boland wrote:
>>>
>>> The other question I have is how is the Ubuntu 11.04 boot loader (hope
>>> that is the right term) supposed to look.  All of the ones I have seen
>>> have a nice background image, use color, etc.
>>
>> Mine doesn't, it's just a blue screen (not a bluescreen, but the same
>> blue). Dunno why, or where it comes from. I'd have thought the grub
>> config including all the nice graphic config would be installed
>> everytime I run update-grub.
> 
> 1. Is "GRUB_TERMINAL" in "/etc/default/grub" set to "console"?

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console


> 2. Does "/etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme" exist?

jens at hualien:~/.mplayer$ ls -l /etc/grub.d
insgesamt 56
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6658 2011-04-21 15:31 00_header
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5522 2011-04-21 15:19 05_debian_theme
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6304 2011-04-21 15:31 10_linux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5233 2011-04-21 15:31 20_linux_xen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1588 2010-09-24 20:16 20_memtest86+
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7118 2011-05-05 00:20 30_os-prober
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  214 2009-12-07 23:49 40_custom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   95 2010-10-06 14:22 41_custom
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  483 2009-12-07 23:49 README

>  Is it executable? Is it
> the default file 

I suppose so ...




> or have you edited it? Do the requisite files and
> directories in "/lib/plymouth/themes/" exist? 

$ ls -l /lib/plymouth/themes/
insgesamt 20
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   39 2011-05-02 18:55 default.grub ->
/etc/alternatives/default.plymouth.grub
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   34 2011-05-02 18:55 default.plymouth ->
/etc/alternatives/default.plymouth
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-05-02 13:25 details
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-05-02 14:12 kubuntu-logo
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-05-02 18:55 kubuntu-text
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   31 2011-05-02 18:55 text.plymouth ->
/etc/alternatives/text.plymouth
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-05-02 14:12 ubuntu-logo
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-05-02 18:53 ubuntu-text



>  Are they the default
> files/directories or have you edited them?

No edits ...

> Have you created any
> directory or file that might override the default image location in
> "/etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme" without a loadable image there?

No.

> 3. Have you set "GRUB_BACKGROUND" in "/etc/default/grub"?

That's it ... Nothing like that in there, neither commented in nor out.


> 4. Does "/usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib" exist? Is it the default
> file or have you edited it?

$ ls -l /usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6077 2011-04-21 15:31 /usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib

> 5. Have you edited "/usr/sbin/grub_mkconfig" or is it the default file?
> 

You mean grub-mkconfig? No, I haven't.

$ ls -l /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7674 2011-04-21 15:31 /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig


- Jens