Landed here while researching an identical boot issue with grub-efi in Saucy B1 after two hours of hair-pulling. Installed package grub-pc and everything immediately started working.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434362 Title: Grub shows a blinking cursor during start up Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: grub New boot is looking nicer and nicer, but when booting, the screen displays a little blinking cursor. It would be ideal if we could hide this. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Sep 21 17:41:27 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: grub (not installed) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic SourcePackage: grub Tags: ubuntu-unr Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/434362/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
