[Bug 699802] Re: error:: no video mode activated

[Martin Spacek]

I too hit this problem with my old Thinkpad T41 with radeon 9000 (rv250)
graphics. I installed natty from scratch from the alternate disc (on
usb) with lvm + encryption. I have "nomodeset" in my /etc/default/grub
to allow the system to suspend:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"

Copying the *.pf2 fonts over to /boot/grub and running update-grub got
rid of the "no video mode activated" error, but caused even worse
problems: after reboot, I'd get to a blank (purplish) screen, and
nothing would happen. In retrospect, I may have been at the text mode
encryption passphrase prompt, but that wasn't showing up. After
Ctrl+Alt+Del, the system would reset, and this time the full screen
graphical grub2 would come up, and I could proceed normally to the
encryption passphrase prompt.

I then uncommented the following:

GRUB_TERMINAL=console
GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

and commented the following:

#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true

and ran update-grub, and now I always get a small text mode grub on
every boot. Not sure which of the above changes were necessary, but this
might help someone (possibly me) in the future.

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Title:
  error:: no video mode activated

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub-pc

  On my laptop I am getting "error: no video mode activated." message from grub on system boot (in standard VGA mode). After that kernel loads and sets proper resolution (1366x768).
  --- 
  Architecture: amd64
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: grub-pc 1.99~20110104-2ubuntu1
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
  Tags: natty
  Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic x86_64
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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