[syslinux] Opinion wanted on F-key help in the simple menu system

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:42:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> One option is to have the F-key help clear the screen and display
> text, similar to the way it would work at the plain boot prompt.

I prefer that option because I spend a lot of my time working with
machines that have serial consoles ONLY --- no vga.

> Another option is to have the F-key help draw a window over the
> existing display and display the text there.

The reality is that for serial console these sorts of things are
fragile and break.