Re: amd64 - odd bootstrap behavior

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Wolfgang Solfrank wrote:

> 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.

The fix from PR/43563 works great and my system once again boots 
normally/correctly.

To those who are more expert than I in stuff from /stand:

        Is there any reason why this fix should not be committed?


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