Comment 2 for bug 605614

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: Maverick's grub-pc package (1.98+20100710-1ubuntu1) causes unbootable system

See this post for background:

  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-July/030995.html

What happens if you change 'set gfxpayload=keep' to 'set gfxpayload=text'? In what way does it break - is it "just" a corrupted console (e.g. is the machine pingable) or does it fail in some other way? What kernel version are you booting?