Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 17 November 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >> The attached patch enables syslinux "help text" menu features to >> display the following help text when the "help" menu entry is selected: >> "Display help screens; type 'menu' at boot prompt to return to this >> menu" >> >> This patch also fix another bug (previously, if someone pressed [tab] >> then edit a command line longer than one line, then the prompt was >> weird) > > Tested and looks great. I've committed it in my local git-svn repo > together with my own patch. > > One error in the patch: the "back" option in the advanced menu does not > need the "help" help text...
Finishing and submitting a patch late in the evening (and in a rush) isn't a good idea ;) > I've made a few very minor other changes, but nothing that really changes > the patch. > If others want to give it a try: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/fjp/debian-50-amd64-i386-BC-1.iso > > The color Franklin has chosen for the help text is yellow. Personally I'm > fine with that. It is not something that i have carefully chosen... So any suggestion is welcome. > Strangely enough VirtualBox now suddenly no longer tries to boot the amd64 > image (as I mentioned in #505243), but correctly selects i386 when I hit > enter from the help screen boot prompt. This may be related to the fact > that I now run 2.6.28-rc5 on the host system instead of 2.6.27.4. Only ifcpu64.c32 is buggy under Vitualbox: default64 is known to work. (on the other hand, default64 works, until one loads "vesamenu.c32") Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]