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Comment 12 for bug 606244

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Jean-Louis Dupond (dupondje) wrote :

Colin Watson confirms that this bug is triggered by a change in grub2.

  * Program vesafb on BIOS systems rather than efifb, and return to enabling
    gfxpayload=keep by default if the kernel has the necessary support
    built-in.

More info about it in https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-July/030995.html.

Its not a bug in grub2, but its still a kernel bug. Why it show up now, is just because of the grub2 change.