Public bug reported:
I normally use Linux Mint, but I tested the behaviour with Ubuntu and
saw the same results.
The problem seems to occur when:
- I use Grub installed by Ubuntu 20.04.
- I install a Grub theme which has PNG images in it.
- I try to boot into an Ubuntu 20.04 OS.
When I select the OS from the menu, the screen just goes black and
remains that way. If I run it using the other options (where I can see
the output), the last thing it prints is "Loading initial ramdisk..."
and then just hangs there.
To avoid this problem, I can:
- Boot into an Ubuntu 18.04 OS - the problem doesn't seem to occur there.
- Manually remove references to images in the theme file.
I'm trying this on a Dell XPS 9380. It didn't matter if I was using a
newer kernel (5.4.0-40) or the default one upon install (5.4.0-26). It
wasn't specific to the installation, since I had multiple installs
trying to debug the issue (both of Linux Mint and Ubuntu).
I tested with the grub2-theme-mint-2k package, but then also tried
downloading other themes from other sites and saw the same issue.
Removing the references to the png images in the file allowed it to work
- it didn't seem to matter that the "insmod png" line was still present.
And it's also really strange that it only seemed to affect Ubuntu 20.04,
but not 18.04 (using kernel 5.3.0-59). I haven't seen anyone else
complain about such a thing, so I don't know if it's something highly
specific to my setup that's causing it.
** Affects: grub (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Attachment added: "Diff of grub.cfg between working and non-working
configuration"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1889920/+attachment/5397523/+files/grub.diff
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Grub unable to boot Ubuntu when using theme with PNG images
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