This appears to be a relic from GRUB legacy that used a --dumb option for its terminal command. The proper way to do this in GRUB2 is to set the temrinal to "dumb" via the terminfo command.
Fixes: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66302 Reported-by: Jernej Jakob <jernej.jakob+sav...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <developm...@efficientek.com> --- docs/grub.texi | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/grub.texi b/docs/grub.texi index 852567a0156a..5da3835fa45f 100644 --- a/docs/grub.texi +++ b/docs/grub.texi @@ -2731,11 +2731,11 @@ command. However, note that GRUB assumes that your terminal emulator is compatible with VT100 by default. This is true for most terminal -emulators nowadays, but you should pass the option @option{--dumb} to -the command if your terminal emulator is not VT100-compatible or -implements few VT100 escape sequences. If you specify this option then -GRUB provides you with an alternative menu interface, because the normal -menu requires several fancy features of your terminal. +emulators nowadays. However if your terminal emulator is not VT100-compatible +or implements few VT100 escape sequences, you shoud tell GRUB that the +terminal is dumb using the @command{terminfo} (@pxref{terminfo}) command. +This will have GRUB provide you with an alternative menu interface, because +the normal menu requires several fancy features of your terminal. @node Vendor power-on keys -- 2.34.1 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
