Ubuntu
grub package

On boot, grub shows a garbled screen

Bug #66324 reported by Sameer Morar on 2006-10-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #31743: splash makes grub menu invisible. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	grub (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When booting, grub shows a garbled screen. It still boots into Ubuntu, and the menu can be manipulated blindly.

Upon further investigation, /boot/grub/menu.lst contains a reference to /boot/grub/default-splash.xpm.gz, which is a symlink to a file that does not exist (/usr/share/pixmaps/grub/ubuntu-artwork.xpm.gz)

Grub was working as expected before I upgraded from Dapper -> Edgy. I suspect that the ubuntu-artwork.xpm.gz file was lost in the upgrade, or is provided by a different package that grub does not seem to depend upon.

Alternatively, the upgrade of grub did not reinstall the menu.lst file with an updated splashscreen file location.