I am not sure this is a grubby issue. All is well with a cold boot. On warm boot, grubby menu screen appears as four sets of very tiny text menus across the top of the screen. Not readable. Default boot occurs normally after this and you can use down arrow to select other boot images in menu, but you can only tell where you are by counting how many items down the list you have traversed. Then pressing enter will select it and boot proceeds. Video mode is not getting set or reset correctly on reboot. $ rpm -qa | grep grub 1019:grub2-1.99-13.fc16.2.x86_64 1671:grubby-8.8-2.fc16.x86_64 1726:grub-efi-0.97-84.fc16.x86_64 I can not pinpoint exactly when this started, but approximately within the last 30 days.
Could you do some testing and see if booting an older kernel leaves the machine in a state where grub shows the boot menu correctly?
what does "videoinfo" say? Especially the line with asterisk and the Preffered mode line.
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