Bug 221875

Summary:	Grub Help Option Scrolls Entire Contents of help.msg Instead of Pausing
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Steven Elling <ellingsw+20942>
Component:	InstallCD	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2008.0_beta2
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Steven Elling 2008-05-12 22:54:04 UTC

When choosing Help from the Grub boot menu the entire contents of help.msg (102 lines) is displayed instead of pausing after a screen full.

According to the grub info page, the 'pager' option needs to be turned 'on'.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot the 2008.0_beta2 AMD64 Minimal Install CD.
2. Choose the Help option.
3. Watch all 102 lines scroll by.

Actual Results:  
All 102 lines of help.msg scrolled by.

Expected Results:  
Grub should pause after each screen full or provide different help section like the old syslinux boot did.

I would rather have help.msg broken up into separate files for the different option groups with a separate help option for each section.

Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-13 02:31:37 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 215799 ***

Comment 2 Steven Elling 2008-05-21 06:15:17 UTC

Hrm, bugzilla search must not of been working when I filed this as it reported zarro results.