Bug 118539

Summary:	GRUB menu options become unusable
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Beau Steward <nimdae>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Alpha 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	All
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Description Beau Steward 2005-09-23 07:13:45 UTC

If you interrupt the countdown in GRUB by using the arrow keys, the f2 menu and 
esc (to get to the console version of grub to edit boot parameters) become 
unusuable. As long as the countdown process is uninterrupted before hitting one 
of those keys, they will work.

Comment 1 Ladislav Slezák 2005-09-23 07:34:01 UTC

This is gfxboot bug

Comment 2 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-09-23 09:01:37 UTC

Sorry, tried on some machines and couldn't reproduce this. And frankly, I  
don't see why it would make a difference which key is used.  
Did you configure some strange language, maybe?

Comment 3 Beau Steward 2005-09-23 15:18:06 UTC

This is a default install. Could it possibly be the keyboard on my laptop, since 
most laptops will have very proprietary hardware?

Comment 4 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-09-26 09:36:21 UTC

You are talking about grub specifically, NOT about the install cd?

Comment 5 Beau Steward 2005-09-29 23:51:14 UTC

I wasn't sure how to categorize the bug so I checked for other grub issues 
reported and noticed they were categorized under installation. However, this is 
with grub itself.

Comment 6 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-09-30 08:47:49 UTC

So it _does_ work with the install CD, but not later in the installed system?

Comment 7 Beau Steward 2005-10-04 19:00:53 UTC

The install cd appears to use isolinux, and this bug does not appear there. It 
appears with grub after it is installed.

Comment 8 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-10-05 09:15:46 UTC

Ok, I'll look into it if time permits for 10.1. 
 
Just to make sure: you have to use the arrow keys to trigger this, and the 
effect is that Esc & F-keys don't work (while arrow keys still do).

Comment 9 Beau Steward 2005-10-05 19:12:24 UTC

As far as I can see, the bug is triggered after hitting one of the up or down 
arrow keys, or it could simply be caused by changing the boot selection. Once 
the bug is triggered, the Esc and F-keys do not work while changing boot 
selection with the arrow keys appears to continue working. I can't tell if other 
keys fail or just aren't being triggered as with the graphical boot, I'm not 
being permitted to use "e", "a", or "c" to get to their respective options 
regardless of whether an arrow key was used or the selection was changed (this 
apparently requires leaving the graphical boot menu by hitting esc).

I have created a vmware installation of SuSE. Once my SuSE 10 package arrives, 
I'm not gonna be able to do any more testing on my laptop for a while. If the 
vmware installation also displays this behavior, I can use that to continue 
testing for this bug. I'll check for the bug there and start looking for 10.1 
prereleases.

Comment 10 Beau Steward 2005-10-14 08:31:55 UTC

You should be happy to know that my SuSE 10 package arrived and this appears to 
be fixed. Maybe an upgrade to grub to resolve another problem inadvertantly 
fixed this one?

Comment 11 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-10-14 08:58:45 UTC

I'm glad indeed. I suspected grub's keyboard handling code to interfere here.  
  
If the problems pops up again, just reopen this bug.