It seems more likely that this is an issue with plymouth not quite doing everything right.
If you reboot, go in the grub menu and add 'plymouth.debug' to the end of the kernel line, you should then get logs in /var/log/plymouth- debug.log. It would be helpful if you could attach that to the bug report as well. Thanks! ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1413397 Title: Minimal utopic/14.10 install boots to blank console To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1413397/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs