Comment 42 for bug 1656605

Excellent find, Joseph!

Here are the lines of interest from our /etc/default/grub files:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

So we had value: "quiet splash"

I tried your suggested value: "" That worked, not quite the old user experience, however.

I tried value: "splash" to see if that would bring back the "Ubuntu ...." start-up splash screen. Nadda.

I next moved to value: "quiet" That at least shows IPL progress, and successfully lands at TTY1 login screen. We will run with this new setting for now.

So question, was it intentional to no longer have "Ubuntu ...." IPL 'splash screen' during which Esc may be pressed to see the actual IPL steps on the server console?