On Sunday 02 November 2008 19:41:42 Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 06:07:30PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 01:46:10PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > output will roll off the standard sized console. Please remove some > > > > commands so there aren't so many that they roll off the screen. > > > > > > 'set pager=1' solves this. Btw, should we make it the default? > > > > totally, this is very annoying by default. :) > > Since this was intentional, I'd like to know what others (specially the > maintainers) think about this before proposing that it is changed...
The pager must not be enabled by default. This was decided in GRUB Legacy (by me), and I believe that this decision is still right. The reason is that GRUB must not require any human intervention by default. Otherwise, if a command emits a lot of text for some reason, you have no control with a remote system. In reality, interactive usages of a boot loader are quite rare. So the default should be optimized for batch operations. If you don't like this default, you only have to write "set pager=1" in grub.cfg. Regards, Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
