On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 10:24, David Wright <deb...@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.
