Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

From	David <bouncingcats@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)
Date	2022-02-15 02:30 +0100
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 10:24, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:

> Effectively, Grub has two shells, Grub> and Grub rescue>, depending on
> whether the "normal" module has been loaded, and about the only thing
> you can sensibly do without normal is to find it and insmod it.

> But most people will never see rescue,

Not good enough, they need to try harder to break things! :)

> and with patience it's usually
> fairly straightforward to stumble your way round the system with ls,
> and find something to boot or chainload.
>
> BTW a very useful command to kick off with in Grub is:
>
> Grub> set pager=1
>
> without which it can be hard to use:
>
> Grub> help

This is very true. It really should be the default.

There is:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763025
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?43307

Still open, but apparently overlooked. I imagine it would
be a simple patch that probably would be accepted.

Thread

Stupid question Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2022-02-12 10:10 +0100
  Re: Stupid question harryweaver@tutanota.com - 2022-02-12 11:40 +0100
  Re: Stupid question rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-02-12 15:10 +0100
    Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-02-14 16:10 +0100
      Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question) Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> - 2022-02-14 16:20 +0100
        Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-02-15 00:30 +0100
          Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question) David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2022-02-15 02:30 +0100
            Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question) Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-02-15 12:40 +0100
          Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-02-15 19:30 +0100
            Re: Misremembered John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2022-02-15 19:50 +0100
              Re: Misremembered Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-02-15 20:20 +0100
                Re: Misremembered John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2022-02-15 21:50 +0100
                Re: Misremembered Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-02-16 00:10 +0100
                Re: Misremembered Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-02-16 00:10 +0100
                Re: Misremembered gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-02-16 00:50 +0100
                Re: Misremembered "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-02-16 10:50 +0100
                Re: Misremembered Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2022-02-16 11:40 +0100
            Re: Misremembered Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-02-15 20:40 +0100
            Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-02-16 21:40 +0100
  Re: Stupid question David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-02-12 19:30 +0100
  Re: Stupid question Chuck Zmudzinski <brchuckz@netscape.net> - 2022-02-13 08:50 +0100
    Re: Stupid question Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-02-13 17:30 +0100
      Re: Stupid question "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-02-13 18:30 +0100
      Re: Stupid question Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-02-14 22:00 +0100
        Re: Stupid question David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2022-02-15 02:10 +0100
          Re: Stupid question Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-02-15 19:40 +0100
      Re: Booting with Grub, was Re: Stupid question David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-02-15 00:20 +0100
  Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-02-13 18:10 +0100
    Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2022-02-13 19:00 +0100
      Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-02-15 17:20 +0100
    Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-02-13 19:30 +0100
      Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2022-02-14 00:20 +0100
        Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-02-15 17:20 +0100
      Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-02-15 17:20 +0100

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