On 2022-02-15, David <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 10:24, David Wright <[email protected]> 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.
To prevent text from scrolling off the screen, I learned. > 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. > > --
