Re: Patch for boot message

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:18:55PM -0700, Mischa Spiegelmock wrote:
> I got sick of grub saying "The highlighted entry will be booted 
> automatically in 1 seconds."
> 
> Here's a patch:
> 
> Index: normal/menu.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /sources/grub/grub2/normal/menu.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.18
> diff -r1.18 menu.c
> 331,332c331,332
> <    The highlighted entry will be booted automatically in %d seconds.    ",
> <                      timeout);
> ---
> >    The highlighted entry will be booted automatically in %d 
> second%c     ",
> >                      timeout, (timeout == 1 ? ' ' : 's'));

This breaks l10n, and also adds a bogus ' ' (although that's a minor issue).

The SI symbol for second is 's'.  Why not using that instead?

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Robert Millan

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