> Or perhaps you have all colors set to blank. > Try add something like > GRUB_COLOR_NORMAL="light-blue/black" > GRUB_COLOR_HIGHLIGHT="light-cyan/blue" Unfortunately, that didn't work. Still a blank screen. I'm curious that if GRUB_TERMINAL=gfxterm works and GRUB_TERMINAL=console works, what the default is when neither of those are set (which doesn't work). Is this another "undocumented feature" of GRUB?