Comment 2 for bug 220336

The following is from an email sent to me. I'm quoting it verbatim with the permission of it's author. It seems that this problem is more pervasive than affecting only Ubuntu and only HP machines:

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Dustin,

I found your bug on the Ubuntu tracker
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/220336) and wanted
to add some additional info. I don't have an account nor do I use
Ubuntu but I thought this might be helpful to add to the bug report as
the console redirection issue is a far older and wider one than Ubuntu
on recent HP hardware. Hope it helps someone figure out how to fix it
because it drives me crazy:

http://www.ghidinelli.com/2006/11/06/configuring-console-access-for-linuxcentos/

In short, I've experienced this on RHEL4 and 5 (in actuality, CentOS
4/5) on various VA Linux hardware from ~2000 but the interesting thing
is that it works some of the time and not others, all with identical
grub/terminal configurations.

Hopefully the bug gets some attention because it's hugely
inconvenient... it hard locks the system and requires a power-button
reset to reboot.

Brian Ghidinelli
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