From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1OaYgp-0005OL-9s for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:34:15 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50149 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OaYgn-0005NV-0l for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:34:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OaYgm-0003RH-1d for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:34:12 -0400 Received: from qsmtp7.america.net ([69.60.160.250]:61526) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OaYgl-0003R7-QS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:34:11 -0400 Received: from [74.221.59.233] (helo=[192.168.1.64]) by qsmtp7.america.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1OaYgk-0001rZ-RO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:34:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4C434921.3050901@jamadots.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:34:09 -0400 From: "Henry W. Peters" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100619 Icedove/3.0.5 ThunderBrowse/3.2.8.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <4C42CB2D.1080003@duboucher.eu> <4C432627.7050701@jamadots.com> <20100718174201.GJ21862@riva.ucam.org> <4C434166.3010106@jamadots.com> <20100718181101.GL21862@riva.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20100718181101.GL21862@riva.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 9 Subject: Re: Grub update? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:34:14 -0000 On 07/18/2010 02:11 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > Press Space with the relevant checkbox highlighted. > > >> I think this is a grub problem (insufficient (& rather non standard (?) >> instructions to select options!). >> > This list deals with the upstream GRUB code. The problems you are > having are with the Debian packaging (or, more strictly, with debconf's > dialog frontend, which isn't a part of the Debian GRUB packaging at all > although it does make use of it due to Debian packaging standards). I > appreciate that it is not always easy for a user to tell the difference, > but that is why I am advising you. > > The problem with having the dialog advise you to press Space is that the > method for selecting a checkbox varies depending on the frontend in use. > Many people will be using (e.g.) the GNOME frontend and if I made the > packaging advise you to press Space then this would make no sense to > them. > > If you wish to continue this discussion, then perhaps you could file a > Debian bug report on the grub-pc package? It's not really on-topic for > this list. > > Cheers, > Thanks again Colin! Space was the place. No bug... (now I have to reboot, & find out for sure). In appreciation for time. Henry