Comment 5 for bug 685445

Hi, Colin,

the problem is already solved for me.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/683775/comments/29

Thank you.

Anton

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Colin Watson <email address hidden>wrote:

> Anton, if you're getting to the point of seeing "safe graphics mode",
> then you have a different bug. This bug is about not even being able to
> see the boot menu. (In any case, the GRUB menu does not include
> anything called "safe graphics mode", so I guess you must be talking
> about a live CD or a USB stick or something.)
>
> PeterPall, could you try version 1.99~20101221-1ubuntu1? That fixes a
> subtle memory corruption problem (bug 686705) which would have happened
> before the boot menu was displayed. It's possible that this might have
> been your problem.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685445
>
> Title:
> grub2 sometimes fails to boot
>
> Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: grub-pc
>
> Not a big deal for me, but I thought I should report this nonetheless:
>
> If the following line is commented out in /etc/default/grub:
> #GRUB_TERMINAL=console
> my system rarely (Tried to start the system 30 of which it happened 3
> times) hangs prior to loading the kernel. Note that around the begining of
> December 2010 there was a kernel bug as well that could lead to a black
> screen *after* the kernel was loaded (Bug #683775). To make sure the kernel
> really doesn't load I repeated this test starting my computer (A acer aspire
> an A110L) with the shift key pressed. About every tenth time the computer
> hung instead of displaying a boot menu. Sometimes the screen stays blank
> except of a blinking cursor, sometimes it just stays blank (but the
> backlight is on) - and one time the display faded in a way that seems to
> indicate that the LCD matrix is no more accessed by the graphics card.
>
> Since this behavior and Bug #683775 seem to have occoured at roughly the
> same time they might be somehow related. But since one is a kernel bug and
> the other occours prior to loading the kernel chances might be low.
>
> My graphics card identifies itselves as follows:
> *-display:0
> description: VGA compatible controller
> product: Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller
> vendor: Intel Corporation
> physical id: 2
> bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
> version: 03
> width: 32 bits
> clock: 33MHz
> capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
> configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
> resources: irq:16 memory:78480000-784fffff ioport:60c0(size=8)
> memory:60000000-6fffffff memory:78500000-7853ffff
> *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
> description: Display controller
> product: Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated
> Graphics Controller
> vendor: Intel Corporation
> physical id: 2.1
> bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
> version: 03
> width: 32 bits
> clock: 33MHz
> capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
> configuration: latency=0
> resources: memory:78400000-7847ffff
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Gunter.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
> Package: grub-pc 1.99~20101126-1ubuntu3
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-8.20~blankdebug2v201012031740-generic
> 2.6.37-rc4
> Uname: Linux 2.6.37-8-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Dec 5 11:05:44 2010
> EcryptfsInUse: Yes
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=en_GB.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: grub2
>
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