** Description changed:
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.
+ my system rarely (Tried to start the system 30 of which it happened 3 times)
hangs prior to loading the kernel. Note that around the begining of December
2010 there was a kernel bug as well that could lead to a black screen *after*
the kernel was loaded (Bug #683775). To make sure the kernel really doesn't
load 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
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grub2 sometimes fails to boot
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