[Bug 477703] [NEW] grub2 is autistic, i.e. no input, no output

[Lupe Christoph]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: grub2

When I boot from a disk with the GRUB2 bootblock (I have four, two still
have the MBT install-mbr provides), I get a "GRUB loading", the the
screen clears. During what is probably the GRUB timeout I get nothing
but a blinking cursor. No reaction to ESC, SHIFT, enter, etc. The after
(probably) the timeout period I get a white Ubuntu logo on black and the
machine boots the default kernel.

This is quite useless if there is any problem that requires interaction
with GRUB. :-(

Some information that may be relevant to this problem (or not...)

- USB keyboard and mouse behind a KVM switch
- ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO with dual screens (one is on an IP KVM Switch with PS/2 keyboiard/mouse emulation)
- no output on the secondary screen
- upgrade from GRUB 1 not completed, I blindly let GRUB2 install it's bootblock when apt-get prompted me. When it looked like GRUB2 was hanging, I booted from a GRML CD and removed grub-pc and reinstalled grub. Then I did an apt-get install grub2 again. This time I let it install its boot block on only half the disks.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov  7 19:38:54 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: grub2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:4846): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:5186): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:5168): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:5065): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -12 and height 24
 (gnome-panel:5065): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.3/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window

** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug

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