[Bug 1863434] Re: 20.04 grub menu not visible

[Siep Kroonenberg]

I also had such a problem.

Hardware: old HP ProBook 4330s with Intel graphics and UEFI boot,
against HP recommendations. No secure boot.

I could boot by just sitting out the timeout. I found some posts
recommending to rename or remove unicode.pf2 from /boot/grub and
/boot/grub/fonts. This resulted in an ugly but functional menu.

My /etc/default/grub is:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="resume=none usbcore.autosuspend=-1"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

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Title:
  20.04 grub menu not visible

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  T430
  Ubuntu MATE 20.04

  New installation.

  After initial boot there is a blank black screen where grub should be visible.
  Grub is functional but not visible.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: grub-common 2.04-1ubuntu18
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-14.17-generic 5.4.18
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-14-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu16
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: MATE
  Date: Sat Feb 15 09:19:13 2020
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-02-14 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Alpha amd64 (20200214)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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