[bug #34228] Bring back multi-terminal prompting with timeout

[Jason Baietto]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34228>

                 Summary: Bring back multi-terminal prompting with timeout
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: jbaietto
            Submitted on: Tue 06 Sep 2011 08:08:27 PM GMT
                Category: Terminal
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Jason Baietto
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: 1.98
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

GRUB Legacy supported the ability to define multiple terminals and have a
"Press any key to continue" string appear on both terminals for a specified
timeout.  This feature is critical in our labs for handling machine access for
both local and remote employees.  Please bring back this feature so we can use
GRUB 2 successfully.

Our original menu.lst commands have these lines to make this happen:

   serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1
   terminal --timeout=60 serial console

To facilitate this, I would also recommend adding back the "terminal" command
as a shorthand with the same effect as
"terminal_input $1;terminal_output $1".




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