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

[Ethan Blanton]

I'm sorry, I didn't realize that comment was something that would expire
this bug, and I hadn't had time to try it out.

I am now on 14.10, using EFI boot with grub2 2.02~beta2-15 and the
symptoms have not changed except that the screen where the menu *would*
appear is now solid purple, instead of a purple outline with a black
center.  So far as I am concerned there has been no improvement.

This is not 2.02~beta2-19, I'll see what I can do to test that.  I am
reluctant to spend too much time fiddling with my boot loader on this
machine as it is a machine I require for daily use.

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

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

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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