grub splash is erased before plymouth starts

Bug #850202 reported by Andy Whitcroft
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The Ubuntu Flicker-Free Boot Project
Fix Released
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Andy Whitcroft
grub2 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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linux (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Andy Whitcroft

Bug Description

When booting you see the grub purple, then a black screen with cursor, then a mode switch, then plymouth splash. We do not expect to see the black screen with cursor. This is either a kernel issue, or something before plymouth starts.

Andy Whitcroft (apw)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Andy Whitcroft (apw)
Revision history for this message
Andy Whitcroft (apw) wrote :

After much debugging it appears that grub may not be handing off the console in graphics mode at all. Booting with gfxpayload=keep seems to work pretty well.

Looking like the blacklisting is not working correctly:

    grub> hwmatch ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt 3
    error: incompatible licence

Adding a task on grub2 to investigate.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 1.99-12ubuntu3

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grub2 (1.99-12ubuntu3) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Add a GRUB_MOD_LICENSE declaration to hwmatch (LP: #850202).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:18:15 +0100

Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Andy Whitcroft (apw) wrote :

Confirmed that the new grub2 sorts this out. Closing out the kernel task.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Invalid
Changed in ubuntu-flicker-free-boot:
status: New → Fix Released
assignee: nobody → Andy Whitcroft (apw)
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