Nothing displayed on screen until login screen

[MA]

On ThinkPad W530, after BIOS details, nothing is displayed until login screen.
Booting works, including entering password for an encrypted partition (but nothing is shown on screen).

13.04 works fine.

# cat /etc/default/grub
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
# info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=1
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: grub-common 2.00-18ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-5.11-generic 3.11.0
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-5-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 11 20:27:12 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-09 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64 (20130909)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: grub2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[MA (mariusa)]

This looks similar, but it's 2yrs old. For me, 13.04 was working fine.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/805086

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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