On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:00:46PM +0100, Barry Jackson wrote: > On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: > >With http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition being down at the moment, > >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!
The manual even answers this question directly with an example: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#GRUB-only-offers-a-rescue-shell See the example after "then you can correct this and enter normal mode manually". (Once you are in normal mode with a correct prefix, then commands will be autoloaded, although you could insmod them manually if you really wanted. But this should be self-explanatory once you do it, as entering normal mode will give you a GRUB menu.) I've extended the text you refer to (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Commands) to link to this troubleshooting section. It'll be there the next time we push to the website. Regards, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
