Comment 7 for bug 566002

I have this same problem with the same laptop. It worked well in 9.10 IIRC, then I had the problem listed here on 10.04.

It is present in a different form in 10.10, 11.04 and 11.10

In the latest two versions, rather than the coloured screen seen above there is garbled text (that would normally be readable 'booting' text) when starting up.

This happens on every cold startup.

The 'workaround' is as follows:

Turn on
Hold down shift so grub menu appears
Select 'recovery mode'
Wait for a bit (garbled text and screen essentially useless)
See that activity has ceased (I believe it is 'showing' the menu at the start of recovery mode)
hit Alt+Ctrl+Del
hold shift again to see boot menu
select 'start Ubuntu XXXXXXX' (the top item on the menu)
Starts normally now.

I've been hoping for a miracle cure on the last few releases, but it doesn't seem to be happening. So I am getting off my lazy butt and reporting it. Happy to provide more info if needed, but I might be a bit slow in the turnaround (I'm back and forth away from this laptop).