Bug 484546

I see the same behaviour using grub-0.97-42.fc11.x86_64

Trying to edit any existant command from GRUB when booting is broken, until I enter the command mode. Once I go out of command mode and try to edit again, it works.

So:
1. Going edit mode for editing any command using "e"
2. Command is cut (last command characters are not shown)
3. Go to the beggining (press home key) => garbage is shown at the beggning of the command
4. Try to add characters (for example, space) => independently of the pressed key, the rest of the command is shown (the characters missing in 2.)
5. Exit eding, go to command mode (c), exit command mode and go again edit anything
6. Editing works correctly

Does this still happen with grub-0.97-50?  It seems to be working for me

Still broken for me, but no so broken :). I'm yet experiencing an incorrect behaviour when editing. Description follows.

1. Go into edit mode for one entry
2. Select one of the commands (for example the kernel one), big enough not to fit on the screen width
3. Press 'e' again to edit that command
4. Command ending is shown correctly
5. Pressing home to go to the beggining of the command shows the beggining of the command is filled with garbage. It's always the 21 first chars, in my case
[this happens also with a command that does not fill the screen, and without having to press the Home key, for example with the initrd command]
[The garbage is a fussion of the commands for the last entry, in my case a rootnoverify + chainloading to boot a Windows partition]

Let's continue from point 4:
5. Once editing a particular command, if I try to add empty space by using the space key, instead of spaces garbage chars are added to the end

Once more, going first into command mode from the boot menu, exiting it and doing the edit, solves the problem.

Using: grub-0.97-50.fc11.x86_64

Just in case it's not clear, I'm experiencing this while executing GRUB stage 2, not GRUB once Fedora is running.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
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