Description of problem: Just an cosmetic thing. When using hiddenmenu, Grub prints multiple lines during countdown: Booting ... in 5 seconds Booting ... in 4 seconds Booting ... in 3 seconds and so on The old (correct?) behaviour was to keep this on single line. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use hiddenmenu option in grub.conf (default) 2. 3. Actual results: Always Expected results: Additional info:
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This doesn't happen for me... are you using a normal console?
*** Bug 210298 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hi Jeremy, The installation was on VmWare ESX 3.0. The console was normal as ESX console could be normal ;-) Anyhow, I retested with RHEL5 beta 2 (on both real hardware and on ESX 3.0 virtual machine) and it seems that the issue is resolved. It counts on a single line as it was supposed to do. I guess the problem was something with the page layout (which changed between beta1 and beta2)?
Closing CURRENTRELEASE based on comment #5
Reopening this bug and changing the title to match the problem better. I have described this issue in bugzilla #617155 for RHEL 6 but I've been able to reproduce the same issue in RHEL 5. Here is the same text I posted in the other bug: The problem occurs here whenever you have a grub title entry that is longer than the amount of text that can fit on a single line. So, while this fits on a single line: title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-164.el5) This, does not: title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.i686) Whenever you have this much text, the line word-wraps and causes the next line to be drawn below the original line instead of overwriting it. This causes the following behavior: Booting Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (<kernel_version>) in 5... Booting Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (<kernel_version>) in 4... Booting Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (<kernel_version>) in 3... Booting Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (<kernel_version>) in 2... Booting Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (<kernel_version>) in 1...
Hi Bryan, The cause of the problem is the same as in bug you mentioned - too long string provided to grub by other component. So I think the result is the same - CANTFIX.