On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 08.07.2009 03:06, Russell Whitaker wrote:
In file dmesg_r4392.log:
line 2079 reads "menu: hda1:/etc/grub.conf"
line 2080 has 2,000 characters of whitespace followed by text which
starts with "scanning for"
[...]
I think all that whitespace is a bug.
Actually, if you think about screen size and grub menu, it is pretty
obvious that it is not a bug. Maybe not extremely efficient, but 2000
characters are exactly what fits on a 80x25 screen, so this is nothing
but clearing the screen by writing spaces to it.
If the program writing the display does not word-wrap at the edge of the
screen then some data just disappears. I'll still call it a bug: there
should be a "newline" at the end of the 2000 characters to ensure the data
that follows the 2000 characters is on-screen.
Russ
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