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

[Christopher Chavez]

I did experience the issue described here recently, including how holding right shift fails to bring up the menu on a virtual host, and it would boot without a delay (using grub2-2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1 and 2.02~beta2-15).
I then upgraded to the preview version (2.02~beta2-18 at the time) and noticed a change in some of the boot behavior--e.g. there is now a visible menu and 10 second countdown displayed as well.
I think this is due to items of /etc/default/grub (GRUB_TIMEOUT, GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT, etc.), so it might help to post that if it's been modified at all, and I'm not inclined to put myself as affected by this bug unless I can try out/reproduce your configuration. 

The following should let you try grub2-2.02~beta2-19 for amd64 (BIOS) to
see if that makes any difference:

mkdir grub-preview
cd grub-preview
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/grub2/grub2_2.02~beta2-19_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/grub2/grub-common_2.02~beta2-19_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/grub2/grub2-common_2.02~beta2-19_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/grub2/grub-pc_2.02~beta2-19_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/grub2/grub-pc-bin_2.02~beta2-19_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg --install grub*.deb

To revert to 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1 (current version for 14.04 trusty, may
change):

sudo apt-get install grub2=2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1 \
grub-pc=2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1 \
grub-common=2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1 \
grub2-common=2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1 \
grub-pc-bin=2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1


** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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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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