Bug#605485: error messages are lost in gfxterm

[Robert Millan]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.98+20100804-4
Severity: serious
Tags: fixed-upstream
Justification: unsuitable for release under package maintainer's opinion

If an error happens during load of a boot entry, and gfxterm (the default
mode) is in use, error messages are not displayed.

To make things worse, the "Loading" messages that grub.cfg prints while
loading kernel and initrd images are also lost, which means that in slow
(or emulated) machines, the boot process appears to hang.

This bug is fixed upstream (and the fix is a trivial one-liner).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.35          Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common              1.98+20100804-4 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                    2.11.2-6        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1       2:1.02.48-3     The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  ucf                      3.0025+nmu1     Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.6      common files for the Debian Deskto

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/grub changed [not included]

-- debconf information excluded