Re: Serial: "Press any key to continue" ...[Fwd: Serial output sent to console]

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

At Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:04:19 +0100,
Christoph Plattner wrote:
> Was the "Press any key to continue" only for development or should
> this stay in the release.

It is necessary to choose which terminal you want to use at run time.

> We should discuss that point also, before we release, or the usage
> of `--timeout=0' should be the "default" in the documentation.

The default has already been defined: GRUB waits until you input any
key. I don't like to discuss that, if you want to break the
compatibility. The user-visible features of GRUB should be stable,
until we start working next major releases (2.x). It is acceptable to
break compatibilities, only when GRUB has critical problems and it is
impossible to fix them without giving up compatibilities.

BTW, the default way was determined not only by my preference. IIRC,
the important point was that GRUB should provide a convenient way to
choose a terminal at run time, like Open Firmware. The current
implementation is not so clever, but it is sufficient, IMO. Also, that
is compatible with how the menu interface deals with a timeout, that
is, if the user doesn't specify a timeout explicitly, the menu waits
an input forever.

> I send the mail to you because a RedHat 7.2 user has the problem.
> that the machine starts with "Press any key to continue" (see
> below).

It is a bug in the Red Hat version of GRUB, definitely.

Thanks,
Okuji