Re: amd64 - odd bootstrap behavior

[Wolfgang Solfrank <Wolfgang%Solfrank.net@localhost>]

Hi,

> Just a bit more info - the printed menu is 1-origin, but it starts with the 2nd 
> "Boot single user" line. It looks like this:
>
> 1. Boot single user
> 2. Disable ACPI
> 3. Disable ACPI and SMP
> 4. Drop to boot prompt
> 5. Run memory test
>
> So, it is actually completely ignoring my first menu line!
>
> menu=Boot normally
>
>
> Anyone else seeing this?

This is an old bug in the parsing of boot.cfg.  It doesn't ignore
empty lines or, contrary to what the manual page says, lines beginning
with a hash.  It prepends those to the next line and then tries to split
the result at a "=", looks up the part before the "=" in the list of
available commands, silently dropping anything it cannot understand.

So in your case, it tries to look up the command "\nmenu", which it
doesn't grok.

Oh, I just remembered that I did send-pr this last year, but forgot
about it.  Try the fix from PR#43563.

Ciao,
Wolfgang
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