[Bug #1647] Would like a text-mode boot option ala LILO

[nobody]

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Changes by: Henrik Nordstrom <address@hidden>
Date: 2002-Nov-22 17:39 (GMT)

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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..



=================== BUG #1647: FULL BUG SNAPSHOT ===================


Submitted by: jbuttery                  Project: GNU GRUB                       
Submitted on: 2002-Nov-08 16:15
Category:  User Interface               Severity:  Minor                        
Priority:  None                         Bug Group:  Feature Request             
Resolution:  None                       Assigned to:  None                      
Status:  Open                           Release:  0.92                          
Reproducibility:  Every Time            Planned Release:                        

Summary:  Would like a text-mode boot option ala LILO

Original Submission:  I apologize if this is just something I'm missing, 
because it sure seems odd to me that it isn't there; in any case, the only way 
I've found to get a text-mode boot (meaning, something that doesn't make my 
monitor "mode-switch"), is to remove menu.lst altogether, which does give me a 
text-mode boot, but just to the grub> prompt.  I'm not looking to go quite that 
minimalist.  :)  What I'm looking for is something that presents information in 
plain text mode, like LILO, but has the same functionality of the current 
pseudo-graphical interface.  I know you can remove the "splashimage" file (I 
already did), but the effect is still the same (although the background is 
blank now :)).

Follow-up Comments
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Date: 2002-Nov-22 17:39             By: hno
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..

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Date: 2002-Nov-08 17:21             By: okuji
For what is it useful?

Okuji


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