Public bug reported: Binary package hint: grub-pc
Not a big deal for me, but I thought I should report this nonetheless: If the following line is commented out in /etc/default/grub: #GRUB_TERMINAL=console my system rarely (Tried to start the system 30 of which it happened 3 times) hangs prior to loading the kernel. To make sure it really doesn't load the kernel I repeated this test starting my computer (A acer aspire an A110L) with the shift key pressed. About every tenth time the computer hung instead of displaying a boot menu. Sometimes the screen stays blank except of a blinking cursor, sometimes it just stays blank (but the backlight is on) - and one time the display faded in a way that seems to indicate that the LCD matrix is no more accessed by the graphics card. Since this behavior and Bug #683775 seem to have occoured at roughly the same time they might be somehow related. But since one is a kernel bug and the other occours prior to loading the kernel chances might be low. My graphics card identifies itselves as follows: *-display:0 description: VGA compatible controller product: Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: p...@0000:00:02.0 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:16 memory:78480000-784fffff ioport:60c0(size=8) memory:60000000-6fffffff memory:78500000-7853ffff *-display:1 UNCLAIMED description: Display controller product: Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2.1 bus info: p...@0000:00:02.1 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 resources: memory:78400000-7847ffff Kind regards, Gunter. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: grub-pc 1.99~20101126-1ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-8.20~blankdebug2v201012031740-generic 2.6.37-rc4 Uname: Linux 2.6.37-8-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Dec 5 11:05:44 2010 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: grub2 ** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 natty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685445 Title: grub2 sometimes fails to boot -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs