Re: GRUB legal disclaimers before the menu

2015-02-04 Thread Brian
On Wed 04 Feb 2015 at 09:49:40 +, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 12:28:31PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > Simple. A menuentry like this is a legitimate menu entry, i.e. user can > > try to choose it and press enter. IMO GRUB should do *something* in this > > case. > > As Grub sup

Re: GRUB legal disclaimers before the menu

2015-02-04 Thread Brian
On Wed 04 Feb 2015 at 09:28:23 +, Bhasker C V wrote: > I did try the multiple-menu entries but the moment I put a dummy entry > the menu entry does not appear at all ! > > The only other way is painfully use the echo command > > echo > echo > .. > sleep 5 > > which will delay the boot by

Re: GRUB legal disclaimers before the menu

2015-02-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 12:28:31PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 11:41:11PM +, Brian wrote: > > > Try putting a disclaimer inside the menuentry, i.e. > > > > > > menuentry "" { > > > echo 'You shouldn't be here' > > > } > > > > This looks like a good idea; in fact,

Re: GRUB legal disclaimers before the menu

2015-02-04 Thread Bhasker C V
I did try the multiple-menu entries but the moment I put a dummy entry the menu entry does not appear at all ! The only other way is painfully use the echo command echo echo .. sleep 5 which will delay the boot by 5 seconds unconditionally. One of the suggestions on IRC was to modify the code

Re: GRUB legal disclaimers before the menu

2015-02-04 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 11:41:11PM +, Brian wrote: > > Try putting a disclaimer inside the menuentry, i.e. > > > > menuentry "" { > > echo 'You shouldn't be here' > > } > > This looks like a good idea; in fact, it may be the only way of getting > close to what the OP wants. Hpwever,

Re: GRUB legal disclaimers before the menu

2015-02-03 Thread Brian
On Tue 03 Feb 2015 at 20:25:59 +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 05:19:30PM +, Bhasker C V wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to create some legal disclaimer statements just above the > > first menu item in the grub (like simple echo messages). I am not sure > > how to d

Re: GRUB legal disclaimers before the menu

2015-02-03 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 2/3/15, Reco wrote: > > Try putting a disclaimer inside the menuentry, i.e. > > menuentry "" { > echo 'You shouldn't be here' > } Reco's suggestion was what came to mind to me. I've "played" with creating custom entries for my GRUB. Accomplished it via /etc/grub.d/40_custom. If you go

Re: GRUB legal disclaimers before the menu

2015-02-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 05:19:30PM +, Bhasker C V wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to create some legal disclaimer statements just above the > first menu item in the grub (like simple echo messages). I am not sure > how to do this > > A simple echo gets re-pained just after the menu comes

GRUB legal disclaimers before the menu

2015-02-03 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi, I am trying to create some legal disclaimer statements just above the first menu item in the grub (like simple echo messages). I am not sure how to do this A simple echo gets re-pained just after the menu comes on. Can anyone help please ? Googled - no info available. Thanks -- To UN