On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:40:46PM -0500, Andy Goth wrote: > (I said I would research this some more, but I haven't had a chance, and I > won't get one for a couple days, so rather than wait, I am simply posting > what I know.) > > In GRUB 1.96, typing an input line longer than the screen is wide does not > cause the screen to scroll. Effectively this means once I get to the bottom > of the screen, anything I type that's longer than 80 characters (less prompt) > I have to type blind. Aside from not being able to see what I type, > everything behaves normally. > > My GRUB configuration is plain vanilla. GRUB's on a FAT12 floppy read in > using biosdisk, there's no grub.cfg file, and I directly type in insmod, ls, > linux, initrd, boot, and all that jazz. I haven't made any modifications to > the source, and I'm using the 1.96 release I found on alpha.gnu.org. I have > the biosdisk and fat modules compiled into the GRUB image.
Andy, I just sent a patch (mail titled "split/refurbish vga_text.mod") which would allow you to use vga_text.c as a terminal output driver: insmod vga_text terminal_output vga_text I think this should solve your problem. Could you test it? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
