I have the same problem described above. I installed 10.04 from optical media, later i added serial console support for kernels and GRUB2. Kernel support works fine, but GRUB2 menu cannot be seen on serial console, just the error messages described above. I ran aptitude update & upgrade, but no changes. I have the deafult package repositories. Only "grub-common" and "grub-pc" is installed from the many grub packages.
Conclusion: in 10.04 LTS the bootloader's serial console is broken and not possible to use it, eg. to boot into safe mode. -- fails to deal with a serial console correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/537849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs