You are absolutely correct; forceing “gfxmode text” appears to make booting reliably visible.
That's a nice workaround. I guess this is a buggy VBIOS issue, then. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1720197 Title: Every second(?) boot fails to display anything [MSHYBRID mode] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1720197/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
