It sounds like you're still booting through GRUB Legacy. Since GRUB 2 clearly works on your system, have you considered running 'sudo upgrade- from-grub-legacy' to start using it directly?
If your problem is that GRUB 2 isn't showing its menu and you want it to do so, then try putting a '#' character in front of each of the GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT and GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET lines in /etc/default/grub, and running 'sudo update-grub'. -- unable to load core.img file of grub by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/678384 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs