Bug#569678: grub-pc: does not clear serial console

[Tollef Fog Heen]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.98~20100115-1
Severity: normal

grub 1 used to have a serial output that asked you to press a button at
which point it would put you into the menu and you could walk around and
edit.  grub 2 seems not to ask you to press a button, and when I do, it
fails to repaint the window, leading to something that looks like:


i2c_core soundcore snd_page_alloc ext3 jbd mbcache dm_mod raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_pq raid6_pq async_xor xor async_memcpy async_tx raid1 raid0 multipath linear md_mod ide_cd_mod cdrom virtio_blk ide_pci_generic ata_generic virtio_net libata sDebian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686                             de_core thermal fan thermal_sys [last unloaded: scsi_Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (recovery mode)             
[ Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-1-686-bigmem                          
[ Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-1-686-bigmem (recovery mode)          
[ Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-1-686                                 
[ Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-1-686 (recovery mode)                 
[ Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem                          
[ Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem (recovery mode)          
[ Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.30-2-686                                 
[ Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (recovery mode)                 3bc000)
[ Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.30-1-686                                 
[ Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (recovery mode)                 0v c10e1466
[   38.672050] <0> d777629c 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 cd078000 00000000 d777629c
[   38.672050] <0> d63bdf68 00000000 d63bdf68 c10df8f1 d74d4000 d777629c d8c18c0b 00001846

(my previous text there was a kernel panic) It also means there's no way
to see that you need to use ^ and v to go up and down the list.

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