Bug#522128: grub-common: "grub: No video mode activated"

[Justin B Rye]

Just after midnight (localtime), 2009/03/31, Justin B Rye wrote:
> grub2's boot-time invocation of "background_image /path/to/image"   
> (as defined in /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme) no longer succeeds; 
> [...]

In case people think this was an April Fools' Day prank, let me
confirm that it's a real bug that goes away if I manually downgrade
to 1.96+20080724-16.  It has to be both grub-common and grub-pc or
the update-grub call won't work. 

(A side benefit of keeping grub on hold is that I no longer have to
read warning messages about how you're reorganising the internals of
the update-grub command every time I upgrade my kernel.  What are
sysadmins expected to do about that, anyway?)
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JBR
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