OK marked bug 447904 as duplicate. One remark : for some configurations including mine, setting the vga parameter in the kernel command line in file /boot/grub/menu.lst solved the issue. In my case this was vga=791. Check what is correct for your system. vga=771 seems to work almoste all time.
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