If removing "splash" does not help, it is not a duplicate of bug #63558. Are you sure your changes to menu.lst are taken in effect? If you changed the #defoptions line you have to run sudo update-grub afterwards. Please run "cat /proc/cmdline" and see if lists "splash".
If removing "splash" does not help, it is not a duplicate of bug #63558. Are you sure your changes to menu.lst are taken in effect? If you changed the #defoptions line you have to run sudo update-grub afterwards. Please run "cat /proc/cmdline" and see if lists "splash".