Removing the two lines as suggested by Steve Langasek above caused the machine to boot. (However nothing was displayed on the serial console until it finished booting.)
A number of other machines in this environment are booting with these lines in their menu.lst -- at a first look it appears to be only the HP ML110s that are not booting when they are present, but I will add any additional hardware that exhibits this behavior to this bug. -- HP ML110 fails to boot with grub after server install via PXE / serial console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356518 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs