Bug#534944: grub-pc: text mode virtual terminals blank

[Luca Tettamanti]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.96+20090628-1
Severity: normal

I'm seeing the same behaviour, the problem appeared after upgrading from
1.96+20090603-2.

I do not auto-start the graphical login screen (i.e. the system is configured
to stay in text mode), so the problem seems unrelated to X. The kernel is
configured to use vesafb, but not output is displayed (grub menu itself is
fine).

-- Package-specific info:

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
[cut, sample entry]
menuentry "2.6.30-08503-g4e8a237" {
	set root=(hd0,5)
	linux /bzImage-2.6.30-08503-g4e8a237 root=/dev/mapper/main-system ro vga=773 video=vesafb:ypan,mtrr:3 selinux=0
	initrd /initrd.img-2.6.30-08503-g4e8a237
}
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable-i386
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-i386'), (500, 'transitional-i386'), (500, 'transitional'), (500, 'stable-i386'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental-i386'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-rc8-00034-g81ee1ba (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.26          Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common              1.96+20090628-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                    2.9-13          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  ucf                      3.0018          Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  genisoimage                   9:1.1.9-1  Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
pn  os-prober                     <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
* grub-pc/linux_cmdline:
* grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true
* grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/sda