[Bug 1863434] Re: 20.04 grub menu not visible

[Fritz Hudnut]

@William P:

See, like in my case, in that file I have:

[CODE] GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console   [/CODE]


So would anyone interested want to "disable graphical terminal" by uncommenting that line??

Really my personal issue is on the updating or installing of grub in
ubuntu flavors that the grub menu on cold boot gets scrubbed and only
one option in the ubuntu world will boot . . . no matter how I try to
boot the system . . . only fixed by running os-prober in TW, or
sometimes needing to chroot into TW to do the same action . . . it is "a
pain" . . . only happens in ubuntu, possibly in Debian . . . not in
OpenSUSE and not in Manjaro . . . .

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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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