On Mon 05 Dec 2011 at 07:38:22 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > For example, I can type `help' and a massive flood of commands flash > past leaving only the last screenful visible... there seems no way to > page this mess, so it is mostly useless.
set pager=1 > Pressing <TAB> shows a gout of other commands with no newlines just > all in a blob. Given what I see, I have no idea at all how to proceed > or why this has happened. > set root (hd0,1) (in grub1 that would be hd0,0) > linux /vm<tab> > boot set root=(hd0,1) linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 initrd /initrd.img boot > OK, now were talking... but whoops.. kernel panic .. just > paraphrasing: `unable to mount root on unknown block' Paraphrasing means we have to guess what you saw. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111205142540.GO3655@desktop