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grub2 package

Command-line Install on Minimal CD tries to boot graphically

Bug #831752 reported by Pablo Piaggio
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
grub2 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
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Bug Description

Bug #700686 hasn't been fixed in here:

Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" Minimal CD 19MB (MD5: cc1591035877c317fdef7f4ebf1662b9, SHA1:d86f78c8343009e57b0ecda14592e76802ce1ec4) available at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD

If you do a Command-line install, you'll get a graphical boot.

Regards.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

I was unable to recreate this using an Oneiric mini iso from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ and choosing Command Line at the boot menu.

Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Pablo Piaggio (papibe) wrote :

I'm glad that the Oneiric Minimal CD is free of this bug. However, please note that this bug is about 10.04 LTS.

Regards.

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Pablo Piaggio (papibe) wrote :

>I'm glad that the Oneiric Minimal CD is free of this bug. However, please
>note that this bug is about 10.04 LTS.

I'm sorry, I meant to say 11.04 as in the original report.

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Pablo Piaggio (papibe) wrote :

Not trying to be a nuisance, but here's another person that had the same problem: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1836985

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Pablo Piaggio (papibe) wrote :

Even if this bug skipped 11.04, it seems that it came back to 11.10. Check this:

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Pablo Piaggio (papibe) wrote :

Even if this bug skipped 11.04, it seems that it came back to 11.10. Check this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1871494

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Glen A. (glen-84) wrote :

Duplicate of bug #761830?

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Greg Williams (greg2lapa) wrote :

This bug exists in Vivid (ubuntu 15.04)

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brandb (brandb909) wrote :

This bug still exists in 16.04

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Kelvin Middleton (kelvin-middleton) wrote :

This bug still exists in 16.10

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Marcel (marcelmah) wrote :

And still in 17.04...

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

It seems that this is caused by the splash+vt.handoff boot options. Apparently they are on by default, and the server cd uses a preseed to shut it off. The mini iso it seems does not do this. I discussed it in #ubuntu-devel, and there seemed to be consensus that either the option should default to off, and if you install one of the -desktop packages, it switch it on, or more likely, the vt.handoff machinery just needs ripped out and we run X.org on tty1 to avoid screen flicker like other distributions do.

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