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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>

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