New install boots only to recovery mode

[Jonas Bofjäll]

An new installation of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was made on a clean newly created virtual machine running under KVM. The profile for "Minimal virtual machine" was chosen, the locale was set to sv_SE.UTF-8 and everything else was left default.

Only one menuoption was visible in the grub boot menu which made Ubuntu boot into recovery mode. This was found to be caused by a lone trailing apostrophe on the "linux" line in every menuentry in grub.cfg. (This swallowed a lot of configuration well into the second entry, for recovery mode, and caused some of its options to be used.)

This line was generated by grub-mkconfig according to the configuration generated by the installer. From /etc/default/grub:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="'"

(A lone apostrophe included in quotation marks.) This, needless to say, is a broken configuration. I can not shed any light as to what made Ubuntu installer choose this default value, but I can assist with information to recreate it if needed.

This bug report should probably belong to Ubuntu Installer, but I couldn't find it in the entry field.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

apport-collect 1198697

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

[Jonas Bofjäll (jonasbofjall)]

Sorry, large scripts sending unknown information from my servers to the Internet is a bit steep. I will be happy to post the required information by hand. Let me know what you need.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

I am closing this very old bug because it could never be reproduced and almost certainly had to have been the result of of manual editing of /etc/default/grub.