Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)
On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 10:24, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> Effectively, Grub has two shells, Grub> and Grub rescue>, depending on
> whether the "normal" module has been loaded, and about the only thing
> you can sensibly do without normal is to find it and insmod it.
> But most people will never see rescue,
Not good enough, they need to try harder to break things! :)
> and with patience it's usually
> fairly straightforward to stumble your way round the system with ls,
> and find something to boot or chainload.
>
> BTW a very useful command to kick off with in Grub is:
>
> Grub> set pager=1
>
> without which it can be hard to use:
>
> Grub> help
This is very true. It really should be the default.
There is:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763025
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?43307
Still open, but apparently overlooked. I imagine it would
be a simple patch that probably would be accepted.
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