Package: debian-installer Version: 20110106+squeeze3+b1 Severity: normal The syslinux menu on squeeze installation media is configured in such a way that some of the menu entries, the "press TAB to edit a menu entry" message and the help messages fall off the bottom of the screen. I tested with netinst CDs and hd-media boot images, but I believe all installation media are configured in the same way.
The configuration in stdmenu.cfg is this (comment included): menu vshift 17 menu rows 10 menu helpmsgrow 15 # The command line must be at least one line from the bottom. menu cmdlinerow 16 menu timeoutrow 16 menu tabmsgrow 18 There are 28 lines in VESA mode, according to the syslinux docs. With vshift set to 17 only 12 lines are available for the menu: the title and the hidden border use 4 lines so there are only 8 lines left for the menu entries. I'm attaching a screenshot from the amd64+i386 multiarch netinst CD's advanced menu (which is 13 lines long) where this problem is clearly visible: no item is selected because the selection went off the screen. Also, the "scrollbar" is not visible if the menu exceeds the configured number of lines, so the user has no clue that more entries are available. This is probably due to the choice of colors and the black background. A related, minor problem is that the display becomes corrupted if you edit a command line that is longer than one screen line: try for example to edit the "Graphical install" item on the multiarch netinst CD. This is because syslinux is smart enough to pull the command line within the visible screen, but then gets confused and scrolls things around wildly. I tried changing the configuration on a hd-media boot image like this: menu vshift 16 menu rows 7 menu helpmsgrow 12 menu cmdlinerow 12 menu tabmsgrow 13 It may need more tweaking, but at least all the menu entries and messages are within the screen whle still not covering the logo. Only a few menus have more than 7 entries. If further space is wanted, I'd suggest moving the logo up, there's plenty of black pixels at the top of the image. IMHO, the old boot screen was neater and looked defintely less "toyish", by the way. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable'), (400, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111204190455.25708.56766.report...@forza.casa
