From: Klaus Reichl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Comments to grub 0.5.94
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 15:54:38 +0100 (CET)
> 1) Flushing the filesystem buffers in Linux is really a good thing,
> however, it should be done on startup as well. Other operations
> resulting in changes on the disk prio to starting `grub' may not be
> seen by `grub' without that. (Patch follows).
Thanks.
> 2) When creating /boot/grub/devices.map, the user should be informed.
> Especially the first time the probe works OK, but leaves out the
> floppy drive, if there is no floppy in that time.
Don't you read the code?
> 4) --boot-drive & --install-partition is not very user friendly.
> I did --root=DEVICE instead. This is particularly useful to find the
> default `menu.lst'. (Patch follows).
Great.
> 2) `root' & friends: There should be a way to look up things.
> I implemented `root' showing the ROOT when called without
> parameters. (Patch follows).
That's a good feature. Probably `rootnoverify' should also show the
root device.
> 3) When hitting return (empty line), grub complains about illegal
> command. That's not nice. (Patch follows).
Why?
> 1) The completion rewrite is quite nice, one feature, however, has
> been lost.
> Typeing:
> some-command (DRIVE<TAB>
> completes to
> some-command (DRIVE)
> The '/' allowing for next <TAB> is not there any more.
This is intentional. I don't think it is good to add '/' blindly
though GRUB cannot know if the user wants to write a blocklist or a
filename. IMO, a completion should be performed only if what we can
expect after a string is unique.
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