bugGNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #53065, Have a way to create help screen

 
 

You are not allowed to post comments on this tracker with your current authentication level.

bug #53065: Have a way to create help screen

Submitter:  Samuel Thibault <sthibaul>
Submitted:  Mon 05 Feb 2018 08:37:08 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  Ordinary
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name: 
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  2.02~beta1
Release:  Reproducibility:  None
Planned Release:  None

Wed 07 Mar 2018 07:30:53 PM UTC, comment #2: 

You can use the  `read`  command also to pause execution:


set pager=1
cat ($root)/boot/grub/MESSAGE.txt
unset pager
echo -n "-- Press ENTER to continue: "
read


Gregory Herendi <gregherendi>
Tue 06 Mar 2018 06:11:52 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hello,
the solution which is available atm is:


set pager=1
cat ($root)/boot/grub/MESSAGE.txt
unset pager
echo -n "-- Press ESC or wait 60 sec to continue: "
sleep --verbose --interruptible  60


There is no pause command. To stop for a minute before showing the menu: sleep continues on Escape key only.

Grub manual:
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#pager
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#cat
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#sleep
https://gitlab.com/GNU/GRUB/tree/master/grub-core/commands

Gregory Herendi <gregherendi>
Mon 05 Feb 2018 08:37:08 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hello,

In the Debian installer we'd like to have a help screen at the boot menu, to document some useful boot options etc., so we would like to have some command which allows to show some text (bigger than a screen), for instance a more/less command.

Samuel

Samuel Thibault <sthibaul>
Group Member

 

(Note: upload size limit is set to 16384 kB, after insertion of the required escape characters.)

No files currently attached

 

Depends on the following items: None found

Items that depend on this one: None found

 

Carbon-Copy List
  • -email is unavailable- added by gregherendi (Posted a comment)
  • -email is unavailable- added by sthibaul (Submitted the item)
  •  

    There are 0 votes so far. Votes easily highlight which items people would like to see resolved in priority, independently of the priority of the item set by tracker managers.

     

    No changes have been made to this item

    Back to the top

    Powered by Savane 3.13-8ccc.
    Corresponding source code