[syslinux] HDT problem!

[Gene Cumm]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 18:37, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 17:40, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Am 24.07.2010 22:59, schrieb Gene Cumm:
>>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 03:23, Kent Robotti <kent.robotti at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> When I exit from HDT and return to the syslinux menu there's no cursor,
>>>> but the keyboard still works.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Kent Robotti <kent.robotti at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>
>>> RIPLinuX-10.4.iso, I assume?  I'm going to do a quick test and also
>>> report other versions.
>>
>> I can confirm the problem for my local syslinux 4.02.
>
> From what I can tell, Kent is using Syslinux 4.02 in
> RIPLinu[xX]-10.4.iso (and appears official).  I also tried direct from
> official binaries with same result.  Load SYSLINUX to "boot:" prompt,
> launch hdt.c32.  Once loaded, hit {esc} to escape and reproduced.
>
> I'm trying older versions.

It appears hdt in Syslinux older than 3.84 work while 3.84 and newer
are broken.  The biggest difference I notice is that when hdt from
3.84 returns, it's just a prompt on the screen where 3.83 left
everything that was previously written to the screen.  I can't tell if
hdt from 3.83 clears the screen first before all of the loading
messages.

Playing with cli/menu UIs, if the menu UI is loaded first, then exit,
the cursor is messed up.  If the menu UI is loaded first then you dump
to CLI mode, it's ok.  If the CLI mode is loaded first, it's always
ok.

-- 
-Gene