On first boot post-install only see "GRUB" with blinking cursor

[eval-]

Binary package hint: grub2

Using lucid lynx beta2, clean install to /dev/sdb1 (there are also /dev/sda, /dev/sdc disks and /dev/sdd cdrom) results in "GRUB " with blinking cursor post-install.

Reboot and "grub-install" in VT shell fixes it. (gnome-session and gnome-panels were too broken to use after first boot, panels not displaying unless I hit alt-f1, tab over and keep changing monitor sizes, nautilus constantly crashing, etc)

This is an old dual-athlon machine with Matrox G450 dual-VGA out. Ran SuSE for several years with no issues.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Please attach /var/log/installer/syslog and /var/log/installer/partman
so that I can see what the installer was doing.

Was this definitely beta-2, or a daily build from around the same time
as beta-2? (Or, in other words, from what URL did you download the CD
image?)

 status incomplete

[eval- (eval-)]

The beta2 desktop iso was downloaded from releases.ubuntu.com yesterday. Windows says its 696mb (712,330KB or 729,425,920 bytes). Appears to be built April 6th, md5sum says:

[Path] / filename MD5 sum
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[C:\DOCUME~1\artur\My Documents\Downloads\]
ubuntu-10.04-beta2-desktop-i386.iso 100% d5c257bb85664afc97d62b04a5994f02

Also, I am attaching what my screen looks like when I log in. In order to see my gnome-panels I must hit alt-f1 and go to system->preferences->monitors and resize my screens to some other dimension. Then I can resize back to normal dimension and keep the normal looking desktop. I have a Matrox G450 dual-VGA; only one monitor is detected as "Uknown" (the display is cloned to both.) Direct rendering is on, 3D extensions seem OK. I understand the mga driver sucks, and perhaps the fact I get: "compiz (core) - Warn: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32" when I try to run compiz by hand is relevant.

Either way, the gnome-panels should work for Ubuntu. I have no GRUB or Gnome problems with Fedora 13 beta. And I had no problems with SuSE 9.x on this machine. If you can help me also file this gnome-related bug (quickly) that would be appreciated.

[eval- (eval-)]

Why is this bug still marked Incomplete?

I reproduced it on beta2 reinstall, only this time I got the grub> menu instead of the GRUB and flashing cursor. Still could not boot my system without manually specifying root, kernel, initrd and running 'grub-install' by hand.

Also, my display (panels missing or wrongly sized) is still messed up on lucid; it was not on karmic.

[dino99 (9d9)]

There is no support on such deprecated version; that one has died long time ago.