After installing 3 completely different PCs with a dual boot setup of Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot (11.10) and Windows 7 SP1 both in their x86 64 bit versions, using grub 2 as bootloader, I get a strange message every now and then.
The message says
error: no video mode activated
When I start the PC from completely being off, I always get this error message. Even though grub 2, if the error is not currently happening, displays a list of kernels to boot from to me. This list is not shown on the first startup, instead I'm always directly thrown into the topmost entry of the list: Ubuntu. On consequent reboots, most of the times the list and not the error is shown. But there are also times, where the error is shown for a short amount of time and then the list is displayed.
There is no countdown on the list if it is displayed. Therefore I don't believe the timeout is happening in case of the error display and causing the first entry in the list being chosen.
Can anyone explain this behavior? How can I fix this?
