[Bug 1863434] Re: 20.04 grub menu not visible

[Fritz Hudnut]

@space_agent:

Agreed, it is sad . . . and key point on the bug is that at the top line
for "assigned" it shows "unassigned" . . . very interesting considering
the large number of people who have posted on this bug report over . . .
quite a long awhile.

It does seem like some folks have figured out a "work around" . . . none
of them seemed to apply to my investigation of their suggestions . . .
I'm still waiting for the devs to be "assigned" to the situation . . .
and get a real fix in the tubes on it.

But, the great joy of linux is that there are "other options" to choose
from . . . many of them.  In the case of ubuntu it appears that the
vision statement is "ubuntu first" . . . or only, they figure that most
users only will use one OS, and so after an install it will only boot
into ubuntu.  But for multi-boot users such as myself that approach is
problematic.  Just last week I ran an apt on one of my ubuntu installs
and once again upgrading grub in that process wiped my grub menu . . .
so the problem still continues . . . .

I had to once again boot the SuperGrub2 disk . . . find the "vmlinuz"
for my Tumbleweed install and then run their "os-prober" to get my grub
menu back . . . .  I've been with ubuntu flavors for many years, but
this problem has diminished my enthusiasm . . . because "they don't
recognize it as a viable issue . . ." . . . to even "assign" it . . . .

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Title:
  20.04 grub menu not visible

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

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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