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bug #34228: Bring back multi-terminal prompting with timeout

Submitter:  Jason Baietto <jbaietto>
Submitted:  Tue 06 Sep 2011 08:08:27 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Terminal Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Feature Request
Status:  Invalid Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name:  Jason Baietto
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  1.98
Release:  Reproducibility:  Every Time
Planned Release:  None

Tue 06 Sep 2011 08:13:43 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Just set GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT/GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT (if you use grub-mkconfig) or specify multiple arguments to terminal_input/terminal_output (if you write grub.cfg by hand, you can also use --append option). Then GRUB will accept input from any terminal and output the correct menu on every one of them. http://robertmh.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/multiple-grub-terminals/. Also I recommend using websearch before posting feature requests, I could have closed this one as invalid with no comment.

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Group administrator
Tue 06 Sep 2011 08:08:27 PM UTC, original submission:  

GRUB Legacy supported the ability to define multiple terminals and have a "Press any key to continue" string appear on both terminals for a specified timeout.  This feature is critical in our labs for handling machine access for both local and remote employees.  Please bring back this feature so we can use GRUB 2 successfully.

Our original menu.lst commands have these lines to make this happen:

   serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1
   terminal --timeout=60 serial console

To facilitate this, I would also recommend adding back the "terminal" command as a shorthand with the same effect as
"terminal_input $1;terminal_output $1".

Jason Baietto <jbaietto>

 

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