Hello,

When booting with syslinux, one has some boot-menu help screens which
document some convenient kernel parameters (e.g. to avoid bugs like
Bug#888513). That help is not available in the grub menu used for UEFI
booting, it should be.

Samuel

It would be lovely, yes. But I have no idea how to do such a thing,
I'm afraid.

Hello Grub maintainers, any idea about this?

Samuel

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To: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>, 888515@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#888515: debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 16:12:46 +0000
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It would be lovely, yes. But I have no idea how to do such a thing,
I'm afraid.

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Is this too much of a hack:

<other existing menu entries here>

menuentry ' ' {true}
menuentry 'Help:' {true}
submenu '  Prerequesites for installing Debian.' {
	menuentry 'PREREQUISITES FOR INSTALLING DEBIAN' {true}
	menuentry ' ' {true}
	menuentry 'You must have at least 105 megabytes of RAM to use this Debian' {true}
	menuentry 'installer.' {true}
	menuentry ' ' {true}
	menuentry 'You should have space on your hard disk to create a new disk partition' {true}
	menuentry "of at least 680 megabytes to install the base system.  You'll need more" {true}
	menuentry 'disk space to install additional packages, depending on what you wish' {true}
	menuentry 'to do with your new Debian system.' {true}
	menuentry ' ' {true}
	menuentry 'See the Installation Guide or the FAQ for more information; both' {true}
	menuentry 'documents are available at the Debian web site, http://www.debian.org/' {true}
	menuentry ' ' {true}
	menuentry 'Thank you for choosing Debian!' {true}
}
submenu '  Boot methods for special ways of using this CD-ROM' {
	menuentry 'BOOT METHODS' {true}
	menuentry ' ' {true}
	menuentry 'Available boot methods:' {true}
	menuentry ' ' {true}
	menuentry 'installgui' {true}
	menuentry '  Start the installation using the graphical installer -- this is the' {true}
	menuentry 'install' {true}
	menuentry '  Start the installation using the text mode installer' {true}
	menuentry 'expertgui' {true}
	menuentry '  Start the installation in expert mode, for maximum control, using' {true}
	menuentry '  the graphical installer' {true}
	menuentry 'expert' {true}
	menuentry '  Start the installation in expert mode using the text mode installer' {true}
}

Obviously the text has to be corrected I just copied from isolinux pages
as an example.

<fake menu entries for help>

This is what I suggested to Samuel in irc earlier today, in fact. It's
a bit gross, but could work...

Hello,

I have reported the feature request to http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53065

Samuel

Hello,

Samuel Thibault, on lun. 05 févr. 2018 10:31:40 +0100, wrote:

“
the solution which is available atm is:

set pager=1
cat ($root)/boot/grub/MESSAGE.txt
unset pager
echo -n "-- Press ESC or wait 60 sec to continue: "
sleep --verbose --interruptible  60

There is no pause command. To stop for a minute before showing the menu: sleep
continues on Escape key only.
”

Samuel

Samuel Thibault, on mar. 06 mars 2018 19:13:45 +0100, wrote:

And

“
set pager=1
cat ($root)/boot/grub/MESSAGE.txt
unset pager
echo -n "-- Press ENTER to continue: "
read
”

Samuel

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