boot screen missing on 10,04 with intel graphics

[Mike McMullin]

On August 31, 2010 03:10:51 am Monezz wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Mike McMullin <mmcmullin at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> > so I'd also like to set the delay for the default
> > boot to at least 30 seconds or so.
> 
> change the GRUB_TIMEOUT setting to 30 in  /etc/default/grub
> and run: sudo update-grub

  Okay did that, then shut down and booted, still no screen until the Ubuntu 
with dots underneath it appears.

> > First off there is no boot screen, the display is black then it
> > shows a normal 80x60 scroll of ongoing processes followed by a flicker
> > and the resolution changes to high.
> 
> I also experience some wierd screens during boot on my laptop with ati
> card (modified by hp to make life even worse)
> I suspect it has something to do with the timing of loading the
> graphics driver in the kernel.
> Its just a few seconds so I choose to ignore it :)

  This system has Intel Graphics, my eMachines laptop has the ATI, and the 
same quirks, so I've actually got 2 systems to solve his on.