[bug #12822] menu refuses to appear on serial terminal

[Philip J. Hollenback]

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                 Summary: menu refuses to appear on serial terminal
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: philiph
            Submitted on: Tue 04/26/2005 at 16:47
                Category: Terminal
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Software Error
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Phil Hollenback
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: .93
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: 

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Details:

I have a system connected to a serial console and a display.  OS is Fedora
Core 1 with the .93-7 grub rpm installed.  My grub.conf:

serial --unit=0 --speed=9600
terminal --timeout=10 serial console
default=0
timeout=15
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.10-0.ti.4.fc1)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-0.ti.4.fc1 ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=on selinux=0
vdso=0 exec-shield=0 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600
        initrd /initrd-2.6.10-0.ti.4.fc1.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.10-0.ti1.fc1)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-0.ti1.fc1 ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=on selinux=0
vdso=0 exec-shield=0 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600
        initrd /initrd-2.6.10-0.ti1.fc1.img
title Memtest86+ (1.55.1)
        kernel /memtest86+-1.55.1


on boot, grub prints the 'press any key to continue' message on both the
serial console and the display, as expected.  However, pressing a key on the
serial console does not have the intended result (which would be for the menu
to appear).  Instead, grub stops printing 'press any key to continue'
messages, waits a few moments, then just starts booting the default image. 
For some reason, the menu is not displayed and I can't pick a different boot
image.

This works fine on the display - pressing a key there results in the menu
appearing.

I suspect this is related to the hiddenmenu or possibly this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134029

Any idea why the menu is not displayed?  As you can see, we aren't using
hiddenmenu.



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