From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Q50dS-0005nS-Ha for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:00:54 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52103 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q50dQ-0005nA-Ds for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:00:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q50dP-0005xA-CG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:00:52 -0400 Received: from smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk ([212.23.3.140]:53724) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q50dP-0005x0-6V for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:00:51 -0400 Received: from [82.69.3.149] (helo=[192.168.1.65]) by smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q50dL-0000t1-Ey for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:00:47 +0000 Message-ID: <4D937DDE.1060600@zen.co.uk> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:00:46 +0100 From: Barry Jackson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-UK; rv:1.9.2.17pre) Gecko/20110330 Lightning/1.0b2 Lanikai/3.1.10pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <20110329124031.GK9163@riva.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20110329124031.GK9163@riva.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-Smarthost01-IP: [82.69.3.149] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 212.23.3.140 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:00:53 -0000 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!