Hi, I have a few minor suggestions for the command line interface and the documentation thereof. Situation was this:
I boot, grub is started. When the menu is shown, I press c for the command line. After typing a few commands, I realize why one of my menu entries doesn't work. Now I want to get back to the manu, select a different entry to boot into the operating system so I can correct my error. But I couldn't easily find out how to do that; best I could find was the reboot command. It turneds out I could have used ESC to get back, but I didn't find that at the time. It's mentioned in the message displayed wen entering command line mode (but that information had scrolled away by the time I needed it), but it's not mentioned in the message I get when typing "help". It's also documented in the manual (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Interface), but in section 12.2 "The simple menu interface", not in section 12.1 "The flexible command-line interface" which lists other key bindings. I'd suggest: 1. Mention ESC in section 12.1 in the manual, with the rest of the key bindings. 2. Mention it in the help message displayed if I type "help" to the command line interface. 3. Define the "quit" command (currently available only or grub-shell) to do the same thing; exit the command line and return to the menu. Also, when composing this message, I should tell you the version of grub I'm using. According to grub-install --version after I've booted, I'm using GNU Grub 0.97, but this is not necessarily the same version as the one I have on the boot sector. And there's no version command for the command line. So I'd also suggest 4. Add a "version" command to the command line interface. It should probably display version information for all the different stages, in case they for some reason are different. Best regards, /Niels _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
