02.01.2025 20:00, Felix Miata wrote:
With legacy Grub, messages appeared onscreen to indicate what was happening after making a selection from its menu, first for loading the kernel, then for loading the initrd.[code] title openSUSE on HD0,12 root (hd0,12) pause Press any key to load kernel kernel /boot/vmlinuz showopts root=LABEL=mylabel noresume consoleblank=0 pause post-kernel, pre-initrd, Press any key to load initrd initrd /boot/initrd pause post-initrd, Press any key to finish booting [/code] In legacy Grub, above is valid. Pausing between the two operations helps one estimate loading times of today's relative giant kernels and initrds that take can considerable time to load on older hardware. I'm having no luck finding an equivalent for Grub2, or to even just to display some message to indicate they are loading without any pausing, instead of just a black screen from having made a selection until kernel messages begin to appear.
echo Press RETURN to continue read
The concepts of echoing text and pausing seem absent from: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#index-echo Can anyone explain what I might have missed?
