Gentlemen, I submitted some what I thought were downstream bugs:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=grub-pc;[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496706 and say if
this is an upstream bug or not.
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>From http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497085 I assume
this is an upstream problem.
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On the grub-emu man page please mention the only way to get back out
of grub-emu is to use its "reboot" command, adding that it will return
you to the shell and not really reboot.
By the way, is the bug address on the man pages updated to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Not on Debian's grub2 stuff.
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The top two lines of
grub> help
output will roll off the standard sized console. Please remove some
commands so there aren't so many that they roll off the screen.
Actually just please use more columns on some of the help lines. (Yes,
TAB reveals the missing commands.)
P.S., What if I forget my p
Gentlemen, last time I forgot my password and couldn't log into my
machine here on my far away rural mountaintop, I ended up digging up an
old Debian "potato" CDROM and installing it into some free space on my
disk, from which I could edit /etc/passwd and zero out the password.
These days that woul
AW> If you have a LiveCD or recovery CD which many distros of linux have, then
AW> boot under that. Then, when you are in the root shell, you can mount your
AW> systems partition, and then you can use the command chroot
AW> . That will make the live cd use
AW> your systems file system. Then simply
Please implement these changes in making this typical grub-install
message. Thanks.
# grub-install /dev/hda
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
-Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
Ah, no wonder. These need rewording:
Use the %C and %C keys to select which entry is highlighted.
Press enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the
commands before booting or 'c' for a command-line.
Minimum Emacs-like screen editing is supported. TAB lists
available completions. Press C-x
Can somebody please integrate my patches? For the parent article and
the "grub-install message should mention --recheck" article.
I am a mere "apt-get install" user. I fear if I learn your whole
source code system, and finally make an official patch, it too will
fall on deaf ears.
As I expect I w
ID> try `grub-install --recheck` (or is it `grub-install --recheck
Thanks. I am trying to say that four out of five times "adding
--recheck to the invocation" will do what the user wants, instead of
needing him to fire up an editor. So please mention it somehow.
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MS> This is another instance ware mouse support would be useful: you
MS> could use the scrollbar directly (by clicking on it),
Scrollbar... mouse... next thing you know you'll be implementing
javascript. One or two are OK, but if this trend continues don't blame
me if one day you can't properly bo
diff -C 1 menuO*.c menu.c
*** menuORIG.c 2008-12-27 02:42:57.0 +0800
--- menu.c 2008-12-27 02:53:49.0 +0800
***
*** 84,87
Minimum Emacs-like screen editing is supported. TAB lists\n\
! available completions. Press C-x (\'x\' with Ctrl) to boot,\n
Please add this somewhere you feel comfortable with in grub.texi.
I looked, but cannot find the right place.
Thank you.
@Chapter Tips
@node Forgot the root password
One place when grub can come in very handy is when one forgot the root
password, and hence cannot boot or even shutdown the system.
Gentlemen, there is a serious usability problem with cmdline.c.
At the very start the user sees the message made by
grub_printf ("\
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB\n\
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible\n\
device/fil
*** grub-installORIG.in 2008-12-27 02:43:09.0 +0800
--- grub-install.in 2008-12-27 04:06:02.0 +0800
***
*** 304,310
# Prompt the user to check if the device map is correct.
! echo "Installation finished. No error reported."
! echo "This is the contents of the
2008-12-27 jida...@jidanni.org
* normal/menu.c: print clearer instructions on the screen
--- menuORIG.c 2008-12-27 02:42:57.0 +0800
+++ menu.c 2008-12-27 02:53:49.0 +0800
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@
{
grub_printf ("\n\
Minimum Emacs-like screen editing is su
OK, Pavel Roskin's suggestions sound great. I leave this in your hands.
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All I know is the day I discovered --recheck, I kicked myself for
doing it by hand for a month because the message didn't alert me.
Do mention it one way or another. OK, I leave this in your hands.
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>>>>> "j" == jidanni writes:
j> OK, Pavel Roskin's suggestions sound great. I leave this in your hands.
However, will these patches I sent this week be used, or
slowly
forgotten
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> "JY" == Jerone Young writes:
JY> I'll track your patches.
Thanks!
JY> What other patches where you going to submit like this?
There is a total of four issues,
[PATCH] grub-install message should mention --recheck
[PATCH] menu.c clearer instructions
[semi-PATCH] grub.texi: emergency booting w
JY> Committed a variant of this patch into the repository.
OK, thanks. Say, three semi-patches of mine remain to be resolved. Their
subjects were:
[PATCH] grub-install message should mention --recheck
[semi-PATCH] grub.texi: emergency booting without root passwd
cmdline.c: ESC at any time exits: o
I sent patches etc. last month, Subjects:
[PATCH] grub-install message should mention --recheck
[semi-PATCH] grub.texi: emergency booting without root passwd
cmdline.c: ESC at any time exits: only mentioned once
but nobody acted on them one way or the other
OK, thanks for evaluating them, worthy or not.
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