From: Barry Jackson <zen25000@zen.co.uk>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:00:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D937DDE.1060600@zen.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110329124031.GK9163@riva.ucam.org>
On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote:
> With http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition being down at the moment,
> I went to look at what corresponding documentation there was in the
> manual.........
One question that I cannot find an answer for in the manual here :-
18.1 GRUB only offers a rescue shell
It explains that the only available commands are ls, set, unset and insmod.
So what use is it?
Assuming that a module is missing or a variable is incorrect, and these
are corrected with insmod and set - what next?
I can see no way to boot after correcting things without a 'boot'
command available. If you can't boot, why bother with set or insmod.
I just don't get it!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-30 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-29 12:40 [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation Colin Watson
2011-03-29 13:11 ` Pádraig Brady
2011-03-29 13:29 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-03-29 15:12 ` Colin Watson
2011-03-30 15:10 ` Pádraig Brady
2011-03-29 16:26 ` richardvoigt
2011-03-30 19:00 ` Barry Jackson [this message]
2011-03-30 19:08 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-03-30 19:52 ` Colin Watson
2011-03-31 8:38 ` Barry Jackson
2011-04-12 12:33 ` Colin Watson
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