[sles-beta] Boot menu text

[Frederic Crozat]

Le lundi 24 mars 2014 à 14:40 +0000, Simon Flood a écrit :
> Environment: Text-mode install of SLES 12 Beta 3 x86_64 in virtual 
> machine under VMware Player 6.0.1 on Windows 7 Pro SP1
> 
> When booting the VM it's impossible to know what the various boot menu 
> choices are as the positioning and font size mean the text for each 
> choice is truncated.
> 
> I can only find out what the full text should say by use of "grep 
> menuentry /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" !
> 
> See two screen shots attached but basically first screen offers [with 
> intended text in brackets]:
> 
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 1(bit of 2) [SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12]
> Advanced options for SUSE Lin(bit of u) [Advanced options for SUSE Linux 
> Enterprise Server 12]
> 
> Choosing Advanced ... then gives another menu offering:
> 
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 1(bit of 2) [SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 
> 12, with Linux 3.12.14-1-default]
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 1(bit of 2) [SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 
> 12, with Linux 3.12.14-1-default (recovery mode]
> 
> I'm guessing you probably don't want to abbreviate "SUSE Linux 
> Enterprise Server" to SLES so perhaps there's an option of some sub-text 
> or repositioning the left-hand "SUSE Linux Enterprise" to allow choices 
> more space? Thinking about it, does "SUSE Linux Enterprise Server" need 
> to keep being repeated for each menu choice?

Thanks, we are already looking at how to improve the boot menu
(bnc#867314).

-- 
Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at suse.com>
SUSE