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bug #1647: Would like a text-mode boot option ala LILO

Submitted by:  Invalid User ID <Invalid User ID>
Submitted on:  Fri 08 Nov 2002 04:15:16 PM UTC  
 
Category: User InterfaceSeverity: Minor
Priority: 1 - LaterItem Group: Feature Request
Status: FixedPrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: 
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 0.92
Release: NoneReproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None

Thu 28 Nov 2002 08:53:41 AM UTC, comment #4:

I've checked in a fix which should suppress the flickering.
So I close this bug.

Okuji

Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji>
Project Administrator
Sun 24 Nov 2002 01:05:05 PM UTC, comment #3:

So the dumb interface exists. It would be overkill to even
add another interface, IMO.

Okuji

Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji>
Project Administrator
Fri 22 Nov 2002 05:39:33 PM UTC, comment #2:

For one thing not all terminals is happy with the psuedo-graphical menu.

Sometimes when working over serial I do agree that having a really simple boot "menu" similar to the lilo prompt would be very nice.

Suggestion:

Grub: [entryname]

  • if no keyboard activity before timeout, boot default entry
  • to select a entry, type the name of the entry
  • to boot a selected entry, press enter
  • to edit a selected entry, press Control-E
  • Tab completetion can be used to speed up typing. If multiple matches are found, complete up to the first differing character. If no characters can be added by tab completetion print all matching entries.
  • (optional) Control-N and Control-P can be used to navigate up/down in the menu, starting at the default entry (or first matching entry in case of partial entry).
  • To exit to the grub> command line prompt, press Control-C.

Just a suggestion..

Henrik Nordstrom <hno>
Fri 08 Nov 2002 05:21:33 PM UTC, comment #1:

For what is it useful?

Okuji

Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji>
Project Administrator

 

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