On Monday 17 November 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > The attached patch enables syslinux "help text" menu features to > display the following help text when the "help" menu entry is selected: > "Display help screens; type 'menu' at boot prompt to return to this > menu" > > This patch also fix another bug (previously, if someone pressed [tab] > then edit a command line longer than one line, then the prompt was > weird) Tested and looks great. I've committed it in my local git-svn repo together with my own patch. One error in the patch: the "back" option in the advanced menu does not need the "help" help text... I've made a few very minor other changes, but nothing that really changes the patch. If others want to give it a try: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/fjp/debian-50-amd64-i386-BC-1.iso The color Franklin has chosen for the help text is yellow. Personally I'm fine with that. Strangely enough VirtualBox now suddenly no longer tries to boot the amd64 image (as I mentioned in #505243), but correctly selects i386 when I hit enter from the help screen boot prompt. This may be related to the fact that I now run 2.6.28-rc5 on the host system instead of 2.6.27.4. I'll try to confirm that. Cheers, FJP
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