Re: terminal --silent option, attempt #2

2002-04-18 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: I think I now understand your situation correctly and the addition of --silent sounds reasonable to me. So I'll apply your patch. Thanks for your contribution. You are welcome. Regards Henrik ___ Bug-grub mailing list

Re: terminal --silent option

2002-04-17 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
I don't see how it could be useful. If you don't want someone to see the message (because he doesn't understand what this means), you should set the timeout to zero. Then GRUB will show nothing. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: terminal --silent option

2002-04-17 Thread Bill Rees
: Re: terminal --silent option Christoph Plattner wrote: Bt it is a bad semantic in having hidden features. This may be a Microsoft method (which I really hate), but not more. Well, I need to hide it for what I think is valid reasons, which are * Users not authorized to use the serial

Re: terminal --silent option

2002-04-17 Thread Christoph Plattner
Have you thought about the side effects ? Think, you have a mouse on COM1, which also is your secondary console... then *1* GRUB reinitializes the COM1 to the selected baud rate or mode (at this moment not the problem, as the mouse drive is not active

Re: terminal --silent option

2002-04-17 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
Christoph Plattner wrote: Have you thought about the side effects ? Yes. Think, you have a mouse on COM1, which also is your secondary console... Bad example. I do not have a screen, so connecting a mouse is useless. What is with other things connected to the RS232 as multi meter with

Re: terminal --silent option

2002-04-16 Thread Danilo Godec
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Christoph Plattner wrote: I don't think it is a good idea, simple supressing is the output. The user should have a feeling, if he can take the console or not, and also the start and stop of the time window he can take the console. Actually, I think it could be quite

Re: terminal --silent option

2002-04-16 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
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terminal --silent option

2002-04-15 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
--silent option to the terminal commant to supress the Press any key to continue message, useful in combination with --timeout. Regards Henrik Nordström ? stage2/.builtins.c.swp Index: ChangeLog === RCS file:

Re: terminal --silent option

2002-04-15 Thread Christoph Plattner
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