Bug 458536

Summary: Initial grub screen stays black, only appears when touching a key
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Wim Cos <wim.cos>
Component: grubAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 10CC: lkundrak, madko, mads, renault
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Description Wim Cos 2008-08-09 13:46:13 UTC 
Description of problem:
At boot, grub does not show "Booting <default OS> in xx seconds" but stays black. Also does not say "Grub loading" before that. When touching any key, the menu becomes visible and the countdown stops (as expected)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot
2. See nothing appear, press any key to get menu
3. Select OS to boot from menu
  
Actual results:
Can boot, boot works correctly but if you're not fast enough you forgot grub is counting down.

Expected results:
Screen showing "Booting <default OS> in xx seconds" and counting down

Additional info:
Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS 320 MB. 2 SATA HD. MBR is on /dev/sda, /boot and / are on /dev/sdb.
Comment 1 Couret Charles-Antoine 2008-08-16 23:49:33 UTC 
I have this bug but, press any key not appeared GRUB, and boot in the default kernel. The screen is black with an gray underscore.

To change the OS in boot, I have to change the OS default in grub.conf, I can't choice the OS in boot.
Comment 2 Edouard Bourguignon 2008-08-17 08:13:38 UTC 
Uncomment the hiddenmenu in /etc/grub.conf. Works fine here.
Comment 3 Mads Kiilerich 2008-11-11 23:18:41 UTC 
I think that is "works as intended". See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats#GRUB

Wim, if you agree then please close this issue.
Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 02:43:08 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Comment 5 Lubomir Rintel 2009-01-11 12:44:12 UTC 
This is a feature, not a bug