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

[Ethan Blanton]

Some additional experience with this problem has shown me that:

1) I can no longer *ever* see a boot menu, on either cold boot or
reboot, during the normal boot sequence.

2) If I rapidly press the ESC key while the aforementioned border is
drawing and vislble on the screen, after several seconds the usual grub
boot menu will appear and it works more or less normally.  It appears to
have poor keypress sensitivity (sometimes I have to push an arrow key
more than once for the menu selection to change) and it is quite slow,
but it is at least visible.

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Title:
  The grub boot menu is often not drawn or visible

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  New

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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