Bugzilla – Bug 1089445
Bad description of grub submenu
Last modified: 2019-06-12 07:44:11 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.
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.
Created attachment 769993 [details] Screenshot showing the problem (upgraded to Build 247.1)
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 ***