On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:47:27AM +0000, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 16/12/11 18:41, Chris Green wrote:
I'm still stuck on this, no boot menu actually appears and neither does the text mode boot sequence show up. All I get is a long blank pause between the BIOS sequence disappearing and the GUI login screen appearing.
To see if I have done anything awfully wrong with the Grub configuration I installed startupmanager, a GUI to do it for me. Still no joy, I have tried various different resolutions etc. in the Display options of startupmanager and none of them ever displays anything.
I can't find anything much of use using Google either.
Presumably you're using Grub2?
Yes
Are you running update-grub after you've changed the file? See http://linuxers.org/howto/how-configure-grub2-ubuntu-910
Yes
In any case, AFAIK, pressing Esc should reveal the menu if it's hidden.
No, this is the whole problem! Nothing I do makes anything appear between the BIOS display and the initial GUI login display.
I now seem to have a similar issue on another system. I decided to do a completely clean install of xubuntu 11.10 on a spare system. It all went pretty smoothly and it's installed OK. However I somehow screwed up the password for the default/main account and I can't log into it except as 'guest'. So, easy I think, go into single user/recovery mode and fix the password - no chance - it has the *same* stupid problem, I can't get to the Grub menu, just blackness. In addition the xubuntu 11.10 CD doesn't have a recovery mode on it so I can't get in that way either. I'm doomed!