I answered the question on this bug. Closing it due to incompleteness
is not correct.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1318865
Title:
The grub boot menu is often not drawn or visible
[Expired for grub2 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1318865
T
Hi, sorry for the delay -- I was out of the country when this was asked,
and lost track of it by the time I had returned.
The system does boot without navigating the menu. The menu simply does
not appear onscreen and it is difficult to get it to come up. I have
manually changed nothing related t
To make sure I really understand this, do you mean the system does not
boot at all automatically and you need to blindly navigate the "menu" to
get it to boot (so, for instance, just pressing enter would get you
booting to the first entry, the default)?
Or does the system boot normally, and it's j
Thanks for the follow up. I apologize, it indeed was not my intent to
expire the bug but rather to bring attention to it. I'm not a maintainer
or triager, just another user here, so I'll go ahead and reopen it as
New; I may not be able to assist with this issue further. Probably the
only thing I wo
I'm sorry, I didn't realize that comment was something that would expire
this bug, and I hadn't had time to try it out.
I am now on 14.10, using EFI boot with grub2 2.02~beta2-15 and the
symptoms have not changed except that the screen where the menu *would*
appear is now solid purple, instead of
I did experience the issue described here recently, including how holding right
shift fails to bring up the menu on a virtual host, and it would boot without a
delay (using grub2-2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1 and 2.02~beta2-15).
I then upgraded to the preview version (2.02~beta2-18 at the time) and noticed
Some additional experience with this problem has shown me that:
1) I can no longer *ever* see a boot menu, on either cold boot or
reboot, during the normal boot sequence.
2) If I rapidly press the ESC key while the aforementioned border is
drawing and vislble on the screen, after several seconds
