Bug#1088356: Bug#1110446: installation-reports: The initial mode selection menu is invisible when booting in UEFI mode (still "blind" selection is possible)

[Vlado Plaga]

Hello Fab and Pascal,

yes, this (bug 1110446) seems to be a duplicate of [1], and yes,
echoing something before switching to the graphics mode (comment 2[2])
indeed also fixed it. I left a comment under [1].

To your previous question, Pascal: no, in the installed system this
does not happen. But something with "Thinkpad" seems to briefly get
printed there also, just before Grub switches to the graphical menu.

Thanks for taking care of the problem, everyone!


On Wed, 2025-08-06 at 10:18 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> On 06/08/2025 at 09:17, Fab Stz wrote:
> > 
> > Can you check if this is a duplicate of [1] and report if the
> > workaround 
> > in [2] fixes your issue?
> 
> In the installation ISO image, GRUB main config file is 
> /boot/grub/grub.cfg. However the ISO 9660 filesystem is read-only, so
> it 
> may not be easy to modify it. Maybe it is easier to edit the early
> GRUB 
> config file /EFI/debian/grub.cfg in the embedded EFI system partition
> (FAT filesystem) on the USB drive. Or if the issue also happens with
> the 
> installed system boot menu, just edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg on the 
> installed system.
> 
> > [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65503
> > [2] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65503#comment2