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I installed the command line version of Ubuntu off the minimal 12.10 cd and am working on building up my system from scratch. However, I've run into a problem:

Whenever I run a command like sudo reboot or sudo shutdown -r now and restart my machine, I always have to restart it twice. I let the machine boot up, I get the Lenovo splash screen, and then you can tell the screen is on in that it is "glowing" black, but GRUB menu doesn't pop up. If I power down the machine by holding down the power button it restarts like normal. Not sure where to start debugging this.

Any ideas?

For future travelers, I upgraded my kernel and it fixed this issue:

$ uname -r
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@TomBrossman, Just looked through that monster post. I didn't see any describe what I'm experiencing. My machine only boots to black screen after the first shutdown/reboot from the command prompt. I have an HD 4000 graphics card, although, I don't suspect that to be the issue. Just invalidates a lot of the AMD/nvidia driver issues in that post. Thanks though! –  Noah Clark Dec 30 '12 at 0:16
Yeah, I don't think that question is the same thing. However, the problem you're describing should instead be reported as a bug (see this question for more info on bug reporting). It's unlikely we can help you with it here, but if you file a bug report, progress could be made. Since this should be handled as a bug and Ask Ubuntu is not a good place to work on bugs, this should still be closed. Good luck, and please feel free to continue posting questions! –  Eliah Kagan Dec 30 '12 at 0:49
@EliahKagan, I'm not convinced its a bug. What makes you think it is a bug as opposed to a misconfiguration from doing a Command line install instead of a straight L/K/X/Ubuntu install? –  Noah Clark Dec 30 '12 at 0:59
That shouldn't make the boot loader fail to start. But we should check for that. Try reinstalling GRUB to the MBR before reporting this as a bug. Since your system is bootable, you can try running sudo grub-install /dev/sda (replace sda with your disk's device name if it's not sda). If that fails, try reinstalling the GRUB package with sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get --purge --reinstall install grub-pc. If that fails, try one of these methods. If it all fails, consider it a bug; if something works we can reopen and answer this. –  Eliah Kagan Dec 30 '12 at 1:07
@EliahKagan and Voters, this is not a duplicated! Please reopen so we can either close it as bug or answer with the method to solve this. The duplicated is misleading and will prevent readers from seeing what is going on. –  Braiam Sep 12 '13 at 11:30
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