This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu1

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grub2 (1.97~beta4-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Resynchronise with Debian. Remaining changes:
    + debian/default/grub:
      - Adjust for default Ubuntu boot options.
      - Use GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT option to set "quiet splash" for
        default items only.  These options won't be set in single user mode.
      - Default to hiding the menu; holding down Shift at boot will show it.
    + debian/templates.in:
      - Change default value of grub2/linux_cmdline_default to "quiet
        splash".
    + debian/config.in, debian/postinst.in, debian/grub-pc.templates.in:
      - Migrate timeout settings from menu.lst.
    + debian/grub.d/05_debian_theme:
      - Set a monochromatic theme for Ubuntu.
    + debian/legacy/update-grub:
      - Apply Ubuntu branding: title, recovery mode, quiet option, and tweak
        how memtest86+ is displayed.
      - Use UUIDs where appropriate.
    + debian/control:
      - Conflict with grub (<< 0.97-54) as well as grub-legacy.
    + debian/patches/03_ubuntu_grub_standards:
      - Remove GNU/Linux from default string.
    + debian/patches/10_crashkernel.patch:
      - Add crashkernel= options if kdump and makedumpfile are available.
    + debian/patches/951_quick_boot.diff:
      - If other operating systems are installed, then automatically unhide
        the menu.
      - Otherwise, if GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is 0, then use keystatus if
        available to check whether Shift is pressed. If it is, show the
        menu, otherwise boot immediately. If keystatus is not available,
        then fall back to a short delay interruptible with Escape.
    + debian/patches/952_sleep_shift.diff:
      - Allow Shift to interrupt 'sleep --interruptible'.
    + debian/patches/954_normal_quiet.diff:
      - Don't display introductory message about line editing unless we're
        actually offering a shell prompt. Don't clear the screen just before
        booting if we never drew the menu in the first place.
    + debian/patches/955_really_quiet.diff:
      - Remove some verbose messages printed before reading the
        configuration file.
    + debian/patches/956_linux_quiet.diff:
      - If the environment variable "quiet" is set to something other than
        0, suppress progress messages as the kernel and initrd load. Set
        this for non-recovery kernel menu entries.
    + debian/patches/957_savedefault.diff, debian/rules:
      - Add GRUB_DEFAULT=saved, as well as grub-set-default and grub-reboot
        utilities. Provides functionality essentially equivalent to GRUB
        Legacy's savedefault.
    + debian/patches/959_loopback_root.diff:
      - Keep the loopback file open so that subsequent changes to the "root"
        environment variable don't affect it.
    + debian/patches/961_handle_loopback.diff:
      - Change prepare_grub_to_access_device to handle filesystems
        loop-mounted on file images.
    + debian/patches/963_linux_no_loopmount.diff:
      - Ignore devices loop-mounted from files in 10_linux.
    + debian/patches/965_failed_boot_menu.diff, debian/grub-common.init,
      debian/rules:
      - Show the boot menu if the previous boot failed, that is if it failed
        to get to the end of one of the normal runlevels.
  * debian/patches/957_savedefault.diff,
    debian/patches/965_failed_boot_menu.diff: Silently ignore zero-sized
    environment blocks (thanks, Felix Zielcke; LP: #439784).
  * debian/grub-common.pm-sleep, debian/grub-common.dirs, debian/rules:
    Record a successful boot on resume from hibernate (thanks, Maxim
    Levitsky; LP: #447725).
  * debian/postinst.in: Fix backslash-escaping in merge_debconf_into_conf
    (LP: #448413).
  * debian/patches/966_mkconfig_probe_option.diff: Backport upstream patch
    to make the grub-install --grub-probe option work, which is useful for
    vm-builder.

grub2 (1.97~beta4-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream beta release.

  [ Felix Zielcke ]
  * Change the Recommends: os-prober to (>= 1.33).
  * patches/907_grub.cfg_400.diff: Really add it. Somehow it was a 0 byte file.
    (Closes: #547409)
  * Convert newlines back to spaces when parsing kopt from
    GRUB Legacy's menu.lst, before giving the value to Debconf.
    Thanks to Colin Watson. (Closes: #547649)
  * Ship the info docs in grub-common. (Closes: #484074)
  * Remove generated /usr/share/info/dir* files.
  * Update the presubj bug file and also install it for grub-common.

  [ Robert Millan ]
  * Enable ZFS and 915resolution in grub-extras (now requires explicit
    switch).
  * grub-common conflicts with grub-doc (<< 0.97-32) and grub-legacy-doc
    (<< 0.97-59).
  * Move grub-emu to a separate package.

  [ Updated translations ]
  * Japanese (ja.po) by Hideki Yamane. (Closes: #549599)

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:07:42 +0100