This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 1.99~rc1-1ubuntu1 --------------- grub2 (1.99~rc1-1ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low * Resynchronise with Debian. Remaining changes: - Adjust for default Ubuntu boot options ("quiet splash"). - Default to hiding the menu; holding down Shift at boot will show it. - Set a monochromatic theme and an aubergine background for Ubuntu. - Apply Ubuntu GRUB Legacy changes to legacy update-grub script: title, recovery mode, quiet option, tweak how memtest86+ is displayed, and use UUIDs where appropriate. - Fix backslash-escaping in merge_debconf_into_conf. - Remove "GNU/Linux" from default distributor string. - Add crashkernel option. - Bypass menu unless other OSes are installed or Shift is pressed. - Allow Shift to interrupt 'sleep --interruptible'. - Reduce visual clutter in normal mode. - Remove verbose messages printed before reading configuration. - Suppress kernel/initrd progress messages, except in recovery mode. - Handle filesystems loop-mounted on file images. - Ignore devices loop-mounted from files in Linux grub.d scripts. - Show the boot menu if the previous boot failed. - Don't generate device.map during grub-install or grub-mkconfig. - Adjust upgrade version checks for Ubuntu. - Suppress "GRUB loading" message unless Shift is held down. - Adjust versions of grub-doc and grub-legacy-doc conflicts. - Fix LVM/RAID probing in the absence of /boot/grub/device.map. - Look for .mo files in /usr/share/locale-langpack first. - Make sure GRUB_TIMEOUT isn't quoted unnecessarily. - Build-depend on qemu-kvm rather than qemu-system for grub-pc tests. - Use qemu rather than qemu-system-i386. - Add a grub-rescue-efi-amd64 package. - On Wubi, don't ask for an install device, but just update wubildr using the diverted grub-install. - Enable lua from grub-extras. - Incorporate the bitop library into lua. - Add enum_pci function to grub module in lua. - Check hardware support before using gfxpayload=keep. - Build part_msdos and vfat into EFI boot images. - Put second and subsequent Linux menu entries in a submenu. - Preferred resolution detection for VBE. - Set vt.handoff=7 for smooth handoff to kernel graphical mode. * Fix logic error in VBE resolution detection that meant EDID information was never used (LP: #693093). * Export linux_gfx_mode so that it's usable in submenus (LP: #702594). * Restore grub_mkdevicemap and associated options to grub-install, since it's needed when doing EFI installs (thanks, Jason Gunthorpe; LP: #702707). * Don't fail when there are no *.lua files in $pkglibdir (thanks, Jason Gunthorpe; LP: #702707). * If we're upgrading and /boot/grub/core.img doesn't exist, then don't ask where to install GRUB, since it probably means we're in some kind of specialised environment such as a live USB stick (LP: #591202). * Drop the default priority of grub2/linux_cmdline to medium. We only need to ask it if we're upgrading from GRUB Legacy and found an empty kopt in menu.lst (LP: #591202). grub2 (1.99~rc1-1) experimental; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * New upstream release candidate. [ Alexander Kurtz ] * 05_debian_theme: - If we find a background image and no colours were specified, use upstream defaults for color_normal and color_highlight rather than setting color_normal to black/black. - Make the code more readable by replacing code for handling alternatives. - Make the code for searching for pictures in /boot/grub more readable and robust (for example against newlines in the filename). - Don't try the other alternatives when $GRUB_BACKGROUND is set; you can now add GRUB_BACKGROUND= to /etc/default/grub to force no background image (closes: #608263). -- Colin Watson