From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1EXKwJ-0002sm-15 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:54:15 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EXKwG-0002ou-Nj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:54:12 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EXKwE-0002ld-Br for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:54:11 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EXKwE-0002lF-58 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:54:10 -0500 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EXKwE-0005y3-Cn for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:54:10 -0500 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EA088652 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:54:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10193-09 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:54:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F438862D for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:54:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F38FC045 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:54:08 +0100 (CET) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: From: Marco Gerards Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:54:12 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Dennis Clarke's message of "Wed, 2 Nov 2005 10:01:13 -0500") Message-ID: <87acgnhwpn.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: Fix for strange characters in GRUB 1.91 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:54:13 -0000 Dennis Clarke writes: > A picture says a 1000 words : > > http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/grub/grub_1.91/day_01/img_1280.jpg > > I was thinking that perhaps simple line drawing with "-" and "+" could > be used for now and that would also work nicely on serial consoles and > old DEV VT units that some of us still use on headless hardware. So > perhaps a config option in the grub.cfg for charset would be useful. This was on the pegasos, right? I have a pegasos myself and this is on my todo list. It is just that not the correct characters are used to draw the menu. I suspect this is a bug in the firmware (IOW: it does not use ANSI, which IIRC is in the IEEE 1275 spec.), so we need to come up with a workaround. -- Marco