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grub2 package

  1. Bug #2012181
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 2012181

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David Coe (hooligan-red) wrote : Re: lunar (alpha) grub "no usable video mode found"

To correct some chaos introduced by my repeated upgrading and back-grading Grub, I did a clean install of the latest Kubuntu Lunar (beta) on the vintage Vostro 400. It is a PC/BIOS machine but (as I think is standard these days) insists/prefers to have an EFI partition to boot from.

As before, the vanilla grub2 2.06-2ubuntu16 produces all the boot errors/artifacts/diagnostics outlined above. This time, I back-graded just the grub2-common grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin 2ubuntu12.1 debs from the Kinetic archive thus avoiding any dependency issues seen with the 2ubuntu14.1 or 2ubuntu17 packages. Things then behave as expected!

I think it might (?) be a mistake to release Lunar with the bits of Grub aimed at PC/BIOS machines left as at present. If the regression is general (and not just Vostro and me), there is bound to be a flood of feedback :-(.

Best regards and, as always, my thanks.

David