From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Q50lL-0000Vt-6b for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:09:03 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58291 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q50kf-0000TL-Pz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:09:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q50kZ-00075R-4C for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:08:16 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:41549) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q50kY-00075L-Qm for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:08:15 -0400 Received: by wwb39 with SMTP id 39so1634570wwb.30 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:08:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=G7q1AK/BDmLWYIcbTwO4brJtfwNMJZpVo4IkuejppnI=; b=yHyJInfW0u+rEwQfGBs+lK/m68wV7Y2UtopJ8ory0XswKjJCHRvto+N+oFQzF6rvjT OPNTfn+RWtGJiaWX9ekRdFvrjkC/ppYltKoP0nXP14oR5YKSk2n0Ii3JEpaRfB6WUhJD 8lMAwj9HF+5XyQ270S3XaVmvWw6R0srbC6kgk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Y6y8xn/oBRps+Y1zQhAoS04v2FTqaHfiBIr6jpWnyaGUsHzKQLIOSNm0gA3WCCWl/m YkCf5/V0S3SNXcr/WjdbI3WEDZO9p/CVi+HUo4RMP493Y45mPPwn5HPinXCqwDkgV6JH U7Uy9/AvBmTf3uBXUDXQCMhi2k7DMEbB/JIvg= Received: by 10.227.131.195 with SMTP id y3mr1794469wbs.38.1301512093881; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:08:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (gprs25.swisscom-mobile.ch [193.247.250.25]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p5sm219688wbg.45.2011.03.30.12.08.11 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:08:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D937F9A.6070207@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:08:10 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110303 Iceowl/1.0b1 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <20110329124031.GK9163@riva.ucam.org> <4D937DDE.1060600@zen.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4D937DDE.1060600@zen.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.82.49 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 19:09:01 -0000 On 30.03.2011 21:00, Barry Jackson wrote: > On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: >> With http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition being down at the momen= t, >> 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! [...] insmod normal normal > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko