Bug 1089445

Summary: Bad description of grub submenu
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution Reporter: Zdenko Podobný <zdenop>
Component: BootloaderAssignee: Michael Chang <mchang>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: nwr10cst-oslnx, raul.malea
Version: Leap 15.0   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
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Attachments: Grub Main menu
Screenshot showing the problem (upgraded to Build 247.1)

Description Zdenko Podobný 2018-04-12 21:14:14 UTC
Created attachment 767043 [details]
Grub Main menu

After fresh installation of openSUSE Leap 15 (openSUSE-Leap-15.0-DVD-x86_64-Build191.1-Media.iso) default grub menu for booting is created.

When I go to "Advanced operations for openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta", there is submenu with 2 options. Unfortunately visible is only beginning of name/description, so booth are identical (from user view)!

I have 24" monitor, there is enough place to show them fully, or better&shorted name should be used.
Comment 1 Neil Rickert 2018-05-13 14:14:57 UTC
I'll confirm this.

Looking at "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg", I see that the advanced submenu should contain an entry:

  openSUSE Leap 15.0 , with Linux 4.12.14-lp150.10-default (recovery mode)

but what I actually see is:

  openSUSE Leap 15.0 , with Linux 4.12.14-lp150.10-default 

That is to say, the menu entry is truncated before the information about "(recovery mode)".  If I look at the entry for kernel 4.12.14-lp150.10-default, then the opening parenthesis from "(recovery mode)" does barely make it into the listed entry.

If I select that menu item (using the arrow key), then the menu entry now shows as

  openSUSE Leap 15.0 , with Linux 4.12.14-lp150

and even then that last '0' character is cut in half, and I only see the left half.  Presumably that's because a larger font is used for the selected entry.

At one time, I did want to boot from an older kernel.  And I was not at all sure that I was selecting the entry that I wanted.

Overall, the grub2 theme looks elegant.  But I would prefer to see more information, even if that results in screen clutter and a loss of elegance.
Comment 2 Neil Rickert 2018-05-13 14:24:37 UTC
Created attachment 769993 [details]
Screenshot showing the problem (upgraded to Build 247.1)
Comment 3 Michael Chang 2019-06-12 07:44:11 UTC
This is fixed in bsc#1017558 to use space efficiently. Besides you could also use ctrl+l/ctrl+r to scroll the text left/right if text still too long.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1017558 ***