Grub menu is gone, but system boots anyway? [SOLVED]

sundialsvc4 · Guru Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 436

"Recently," my laptop stopped displaying the grub menu .. and yet, it boots. (Yes, with grub.)

The initial scrolling-text looks very strange, though.

I tried to fix the problem with:

MotivatedTea · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:35 am Post subject:

Can you post the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst file and /proc/mounts?

ant0 · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 16

I had the same problem. The grub menu screen was all garbled. The reason was that when i upgraded and reinstalled grub my /boot partition was not mounted. As a result /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz was missing.

Its easy to fix the problem. Mount /boot and emerge grub again.

sundialsvc4 · Guru Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 436

Like you, I (just) discovered that the "splash.xpm.gz" file was missing, and this was indeed the cause of the problem.

In my case, I simply located a copy, mounted /boot, and copied it to /boot/grub.

I'm somewhat surprised that grub-install (with "/boot" properly mounted...) did not install the bitmap. I'm sure that "emerge" would have.

I'm also rather surprised that grub put up such a garbled screen when that file was found to be missing. This is not exactly "graceful" behavior...

orange_juice · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:05 am Post subject:

Yup, same issue here solved like a vanilla ice cream after a wonderful dinner!

Kind regards,
orange_juice