On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 09:23:39PM -0000, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jun 27, 2012, at 08:22 PM, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> >Barry, there are some additional things that can be done to gather further > >debug information. Details can be found at: > >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelBoot > It seems like the problem is in the handoff from refit to grub, since I cannot > get to a grub screen by holding down the shift when the machine is in "I want > to hang" mode. No shift is necessary after the failed boot because the grub > screen automatically comes up, and when it does, it will always boot. > So I'm not sure the recommendations on that wiki page are useful, since they > all assume you can get to the grub screen. Note that holding down the shift key to get to the grub screen assumes a BIOS that will handle the shift key. I have no idea if this works at all in an EFI environment. You can force the grub menu to always be shown, with or without a previous failure and with or without a shift key, by setting GRUB_TIMEOUT=-1 (I think). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1016170 Title: No login screen unless "quiet splash" removed from boot line To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1016170/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs