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

Submitted by:  Jason Baietto <jbaietto>
Submitted on:  Tue 06 Sep 2011 08:08:27 PM UTC  
 
Category: TerminalSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Feature Request
Status: InvalidPrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: Jason Baietto
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 
Release: 1.98Reproducibility: 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>
Project 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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