I can't see the ubuntu orange progress bar

[Spectre]

I ran ubuntu on an asus x51r (http://www.asus.it/search.aspx?searchitem=1&searchkey=x51r) with no other os.

It works perfecly with 7.04 release.With 7.10 I have the following problem:

1) power on pc.
2) I can see the grub countdown 3 2 1 0
3) Now I see only the hard drive led blinking for about 50 seconds,and I never can see the orange ubuntu progress bar.
4) After 50 seconds,the monitor is still black,then I try to do the following with success: ALT F2 then ALTF1 and I can see that
all boot services starts to loads.
5) after all [OK] services I can logon on the standard ubuntu windows.and gnome works good.

p.s. A friend of mine has the same problem,he is on a toshiba laptop (m40-282).

Thanks to all

[jtholmes (jtholmes)]

Thank you for your report

The work around is
when you see 3,2,1,0
immediately press ESC
menu displays
first entry is highlighted
press e
another menu is displayed
arrow down to line beginning with kernel
press e
remove quiet and splash from end of line
hit ENTER
press b
kernel will boot showing the boot activity
this display will only be for this boot instance

if you want to see this type of expanded display every time you boot
then edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file and remove the quiet splash from
the end of the kernel line.

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 150930, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

Also note that if you experience abnormally long boot time, this is caused by bug 61711