Bug 215799 – Help on the CD's grub menu doesn't pause

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Sebastián Magrí 2008-04-01 23:49:20 UTC]

When selecting Help Option on the 2008.0 minimal install liveCD, it shows all the help and exits back to the menu without letting user to read the help.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download install-x86-minimal-2008.0_beta1.iso from your preferred mirror 
2. Boot in the install cd.
3. Select Help Option on Grub Menu

Actual Results:  
The help isn't showing correctly

[Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2008-04-02 01:09:21 UTC]

This is a known issue. It's due to a bug in grub. Most likely, we won't be able to fix this.

[Comment 2 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2008-04-04 12:07:38 UTC]

*** Bug 216176 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2008-04-04 12:09:30 UTC]

The problem here is that the grub pager appears to be broken in both 0.95 and
0.96. In my test with our 0.95 cdtar in catalyst, the pager works just fine if
you use the 'cat' command from the grub commandline, but if you use it from an
item in the menu, the file you're running 'cat' on just flies by and it returns
you right to the menu.

[Comment 4 Shaun Bouckaert 2008-04-04 12:11:49 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> The problem here is that the grub pager appears to be broken in both 0.95 and
> 0.96. In my test with our 0.95 cdtar in catalyst, the pager works just fine if
> you use the 'cat' command from the grub commandline, but if you use it from an
> item in the menu, the file you're running 'cat' on just flies by and it returns
> you right to the menu.
> 

Couldn't you open it with less instead of cat?

[Comment 5 Shaun Bouckaert 2008-04-04 12:12:52 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > The problem here is that the grub pager appears to be broken in both 0.95 and
> > 0.96. In my test with our 0.95 cdtar in catalyst, the pager works just fine if
> > you use the 'cat' command from the grub commandline, but if you use it from an
> > item in the menu, the file you're running 'cat' on just flies by and it returns
> > you right to the menu.
> > 
> 
> Couldn't you open it with less instead of cat?
> 

Sorry, ignore that, what a retarded question

I can't brain today, I have the dumb

[Comment 6 Robin Johnson 2008-04-04 19:30:51 UTC]

What version of grub is on the livecd copy? You mention the really old .95 and .96 here.

[Comment 7 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2008-04-04 19:52:22 UTC]

We're using an old 0.95 cdtar on the CD, and I tried a 0.96 cdtar I rolled myself a while back. Chris is going to roll a 0.97 cdtar for us to test with.

[Comment 8 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2008-04-05 02:10:55 UTC]

I created a new cdtar from grub-0.97-r5 in the tree, and it still has the pager issue. If you have 'pager on' and then 'cat /boot/help.msg' in the menu, the pager doesn't work. The contents of the file just go flying by.

If you drop to the commandline and use the same commands, the pager works great.

[Comment 9 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2008-04-07 14:10:10 UTC]

*** Bug 216695 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 10 Kevin Lyles 2008-05-01 23:49:25 UTC]

You probably already know this, but beta2 is still affected.

[Comment 11 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2008-05-01 23:56:23 UTC]

Yeah, we're aware.  Thanks

[Comment 12 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2008-05-13 02:31:37 UTC]

*** Bug 221875 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 13 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2008-06-24 17:05:10 UTC]

*** Bug 224059 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 14 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2008-07-06 17:44:14 UTC]

This should be fixed in 2008.0, which is now released.