Comment 2 for bug 450879

The menu entry for my main machine, which still fails to boot into recovery mode is:

menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic (recovery mode)" {
        recordfail=1
        save_env recordfail
 insmod ext2
 set root=(hd0,2)
 search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 04dd136a-dd4b-418d-be41-813ceb63d3f4
 linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=04dd136a-dd4b-418d-be41-813ceb63d3f4 ro single gfxpayload=true
 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
}

Note: My test karmic Virtual Machine *can* boot into recovery mode, but when I select 'resume', it drops to a login prompt (tty1) instead of starting X.