I think I remember reading that, by default, the Grub 2 menu does not display
in Ubuntu Jaunty unless you reconfigure it to display. It just defaults to
Ubuntu.
This might only be the case when you have only one OS installed. Can't remember.
In any case, it's failure to appear may be related to
Diagnostic mode might "work" but results in waiting through lots of
diagnostics on every cold start... so not crazy about that option.
FWIW, I've gone to Linux Mint for a while and I do not have this problem with
Mint. I believe the reason has something to do w/the fact that Mint loads a
backgr
Installed Grub2. Skipped the chain-loading thing... and apparently avoided any
bugs in the install process (if there are any of those left).
That went without a hitch, but it does not fix the problem on my machine.
What happens now...
1) Cold restart... after the initial Toshiba screen, Toshiba
This might be a clue: when I first installed Ubuntu (Jaunty) on my PC, it had
been Windows machine and I did not alter the partition table. I'm 99% sure
that cold restarts at that time present Grub normally. Later, I decided to do a
clean install w/ a different partition scheme so I re-created
I can report this problem is also occurring on my Toshiba Satellite Pro S300
s2504. "Restart" pauses at Grub menu, but cold start... just a brief flash of
sort of white screen and some garbage characters... then Ubuntu loads.
I haven't yet tried upgrading to grub2, but will look into it.
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gru
