RFC: Roadmap to Lenny, or announcing Lenny Beta 1 RSN
Chris Lamb wrote:
> * Syslinux bootup issue - the boot template is displayed with the Debian
> logo but the the text is cut off:
>
> "Press F1 for help, or ENTER to"
>
> It should, obviously, append "boot:" and allow the user to press enter or
> enter parameters, etc.
>
> I don't know the full details and this may actually be two issues, but:
>
> 1. I can easily reproduce this with Qemu. Simply waiting about 60 seconds
> results in the boot menu appearing. I have heard of other workarounds
> (including setting a high screen resolution) which do not cause the
> symptoms to appear.
>
> IIRC KiBi and aurel32 were discussing this issue and were blaming a
> change in Qemu, however:
we spoke very shortly about it on debconf; it's an issue in qemu,
aurelien was going to look at syslinux if the solution is obvious (don't
heard back from him, so I assume it is not), iirc his last-resort
solution would be to revert the change in qemu which broke it (he
already identified the offending line at that time).
also, i should inform hpa about it, eventually he has a solution for
syslinux itself.
> 2. I've had a report of this issue appearing on a "first generation Santa
> Rosa" (Intel-based) MacBook, with and without the refit bootloader.
> Waiting does not seem to do anything, but Qemu's concept of "time"
> doesn't seem to correlate with the real world anyway.
>
> Are these the same issue, or should this MacBook issue be investigated
> seperately?
i think this is most probably a different issue, yes.
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