I made a grub bootable floppy with stage1 + stage2 dd-ed onto it
as my vehicle for testing the new grub 0.5.92.
1. As reported previously, wrt 0.5, grub cannot boot a kernel
image that is bootable from lilo.
root=(hd0,6)
kernel=/usr/lib/hwtools/memtest86.bin
memtest86.bin [Linux-zImage, setup=0x0, size=0x2d00]
boot
at this point grub just hangs.
2. I had read on this list somewhere that grub could not boot
the floppy that it had been originally booted from, so I tried to
duplicate this behavior.
chainloader=(fd0)+1
boot
the prior set of commands worked ok, however,
root=(hd0)
chainloader=(fd0)+1
boot
causes grub to hang. If seems to me that specifying `root=(hd0)'
here is essentially meaningless, so that grub should just load and
boot the chainloader at (fd0)+1, is that a correct interpretation?
3. I like the new command completion, however, I have some
suggestions for a few improvements here,
o complete all commands to the left of the `=' (yes, I am
tired of typing chainloader so many times).
o colors command does not do any completion to the right of
the `='. (A colorful response would be nice here).
o editing commands in place is missing the M-DEL, M-d, M-f,
M-b, etc, emacs keystrokes. Also, the type-a-matic (key
repeat rate) is too slow for impatient me.
o completion of directories and filenames should put `/' and
` ' after their unique completions, respectively.
o when I make a typing error, I would like to be able to
recall the command that I just typed in error so that I can
fix it up. How about a 10 item history list, accessed using
the emacs C-p, C-n keystrokes? (I would be happy with a 1
item history list).
I am sorry that all I can do is make suggestions, but I don't have
any energy left for programming right now.
Thanks,
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Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
