Disclaimer: I didn't try it out recently, my comments come from reading
the code.
There is a serious problem with "serial" in my opinion. Why does it
wait for user input?
(sorry, it was "terminal serial")
Because the user may not run a terminal emulator, when GRUB starts up.
But the user
From: Alessandro Rubini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Serial (was: patch for the commands chapter)
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:35:15 +0200
But the user may not run a local console when the "terminal" command
is executed from the configuration file.
You are completely misunderstanding
This fixes the compilation problems, must be applied on top of my
patch of this night.
--- ./user-ref.texi Fri Oct 6 14:35:02 2000
+++ ./user-ref.texi Fri Oct 6 14:43:09 2000
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@
@end deffn
-@node Command-line and menu commands::
+@node Command-line and menu
Alessandro Rubini writes:
AR The patch cleans up and completes the "Commands" chapter. The
AR clean up is in explaining more clearly what the three groups of
AR commands are (I didn't understand at a first reading), and some
AR minor rewording were I was sure the text was worse than it
Alessandro Rubini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Serial (was: patch for the commands chapter)
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:35:15 +0200
But the user may not run a local console when the "terminal" command
is executed from the configuration file.
You are completely misunderstanding that
From: Christoph Plattner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Serial (was: patch for the commands chapter)
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 01:20:55 +0200
First of all, I really want to have the possibility to activate
serial console by a build switch (at ./configure), to have
serial support, even
Alessandro Rubini writes:
AR This fixes the compilation problems, must be applied on top of my
AR patch of this night.
Thanks, I did these already.
--
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Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU
The patch cleans up and completes the "Commands" chapter. The clean up
is in explaining more clearly what the three groups of commands are (I
didn't understand at a first reading), and some minor rewording were I
was sure the text was worse than it could be -- I'm not a native
speaker, either.
