From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HvGSd-0000f5-5t for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:35:19 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HvGSb-0000bF-Fv for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:35:17 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HvGSa-0000Yt-EB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:35:16 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HvGSa-0000YC-2o for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:35:16 -0400 Received: from 245.red-80-24-127.staticip.rima-tde.net ([80.24.127.245] helo=manazas.ensanjose.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HvGSY-0006iS-UN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:35:15 -0400 Received: from localhost (manazas.ensanjose.net [127.0.0.1]) by manazas.ensanjose.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34768D444D for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 19:35:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from manazas.ensanjose.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (manazas.ensanjose.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13241-09 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 19:35:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.5] (47.Red-83-34-17.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net [83.34.17.47]) by manazas.ensanjose.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE365D32AE for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 19:35:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <466A582E.2010408@raulete.net> Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 09:35:10 +0200 From: adrian15 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 Subject: grub2 miscelanea questions (2/2) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:35:18 -0000 Comes from grub2 miscelanea questions (1/2) 14) help linux ================= Usage: linux FILE [ARGS...] Load a linux kernel. I think that a message telling the user that the ARGS are arguments for the linux kernel instead of arguments for the grub's linux command would be a good idea. 15) lsmod ============== As long as I am unable to run a pager can anyone tell me what the three columns mean? cat 1 normal,gzio gzio 6 boot 1 normal 16) help play =================== Usage: play FILE Play a tune What is the FILE format? Is it an AIFF, an AU, a WAV, or is it an ASCII file that has tones? I should not go to the source code for knowing it. 17) play ideas ================== It seems a rather complicated file... is there any utility for creating it from grub2 or is it standard file that I do not know of? Maybe it should have a --loop and -l argument. So that if no key is pressed the file is played again. Another --delay -d argument can be useful for determining the delay period between one reproduction and another. 18) source, . , and configfile ================================= If both source and '.' commands say that: Load another config file without changing context. Then the configfile command should say: Load another config file (with a new context) instead of saying: Load another config file. 19) rescue and exit failure on qemu ============================== I think that booting from my computer does not give this error. If I boot from QEMU and type: grub> rescue and then : grub rescue> exit it says: FATAL: INT18: BOOT FAILURE 20) grub rescue help ======================== help : Types the commands and a minimal explanation: OK help any_command : Types the commands and a minimal explanation: NOT OK help not_a_command : Types the commands and a minimal explanation: NOT OK 21) grub rescue exit help =========================== When you are in grub rescue mode and you type help the exit line it's the following one: exit exit from GRUB Should it not prompt ? exit exit from GRUB rescue 22) copyright message missing ================================ Why isn't there (when Grub is running) any message about the GRUB Copyright and the GPL license and that you should have received and this and that? Is it a memory problem? (In grub legacy there was not any message like this either) Maybe we should implement an 'about' command and run it when booting :) ? 23) set read only variables ============================== unset prefix lets me "delete" the prefix variable. unset root does not let me the "root" variable. I remember that bash has an option to set read only variables. Maybe the root variable is a read only variable? 24) 'Command' commands ========================== Is there any special reason why the rescue, set, unset, export, insmod, rmmod, lsmod commands are in a single file called: normal/command.c instead of being in separate files in commands/ folder ? adrian15