[bug #36489] Countdown not show for GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT on gfxterm output.

[Jordan Uggla]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36489>

                 Summary: Countdown not show for GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT on
gfxterm output.
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: jordanu
            Submitted on: Fri 18 May 2012 01:00:58 AM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: Bazaar - trunk
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Due to the way that gfxterm is implemented (I believe) "sleep --verbose" isn't
actually verbose at all when viewed via gfxterm. This means that using a
standard grub-mkconfig generated grub.cfg with GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=10 and
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=false there is no indication to the user that grub
has started and is counting down while waiting for input to show the grub
menu, they will simply see a completely black screen for ten seconds.




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