Hi, I'm using Thinkpad T43 too, and encounters the same problem. I did similar tests as what Witold Baryluk did and found the same results. Similarly, grub-pc has never used graphical terminal on my computer since I switched from grub-legacy to grub-pc. Instead, it seems that grub-pc always believes text-mode should be used. There may be something T43 specific and hard to detect. Sorry, I can't help debug it because I'm not familiar with grub2.
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