[syslinux] vesamenu.c32: Last line of HELP MSG does not appear

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Dec 3 20:18:04 PST 2009


On 12/03/2009 05:32 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> This appears to be a bug:
> In case the TEXT HELP for a menu entry extends over several lines and
> you manually set MENU HELPMSGROW and MENU HELPMSGENDROW, the last line
> of the TEXT HELP will not be visible.
> Concrete example:
> MENU HELPMSGROW 24
> MENU HELPMSGENDROW 26
> 
> LABEL bug
> TEXT HELP
> This is the first line, it is visible :D
> This is the second line, it is hidden :(
> ENDTEXT
> MENU LABEL Bug
> KERNEL /boot/bug
> 
> You can clearly see the TEXT HELP box extending over the right amounts
> of rows, the last line of text is hidden however.
> I suppose this is a bug or am I missing something?
> 
> -- Sven-Hendrik
> 

Are you using the text menu or the graphical menu?  I'm wondering if you
end up running out of screen...

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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