2011/5/23 shirish शिरीष <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > I am running grub version 1.99-4 . > > $ dpkg -l grub-pc > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend > |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) > ||/ Name Version Description > +++-==============-==============-============================================ > ii grub-pc 1.99-4 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIO > > I am trying to run grub in interactive mode (which means it outputs > stuff a screenful) and then I can see what is going right or wrong. > > I saw the info.grub and came to know about pager=1 thing. > > I did see the files /etc/default/grub and /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > I do not understand why the pager=1 option does not work. > > What I tried to do is on the grub-menu use e to edit 2.6.39. kernel > menu entry and modified the line from :- > > linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39-1-amd64 root=UUID=somealphanumericUUIDno > ro init=/sbin/bootchartd quiet > > to > > linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39-1-amd64 root=UUID=somealphanumericUUIDno ro > init=/sbin/bootchartd pager=1 > > The change was just from 'quiet' to 'pager=1' . Then to boot pressed > F10. While the booting happened, it did not halt/pause after > information of 1 screenful had passed. > > Can somebody tell me what am I doing wrong ?
"pager=1" is something that you run on its own line in the grub shell (or grub.cfg) to change *grub's* behavior when printing more than a screen full of output. It is not a kernel parameter and grub cannot control how the linux kernel or any init scripts display messages (except through passing kernel parameters, but again pager=1 is not a kernel parameter and I know of no equivalent to grub's pager=1 for linux). -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
