Bug 818360

Summary:	Behavior on mistyped initrd line is not helpful
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component:	grub2	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	bcl, dennis, mads, pjones, rvokal
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Description Bill Nottingham 2012-05-02 20:46:28 UTC

Description of problem:

If you mistype the initrd line in the interactive editor, grub2:

1) prints an error about being unable to find the initramfs
2) prints "press any key to continue"
3) 5 seconds later starts the kernel without the initramfs, which promptly panics

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


grub2-2.0-0.24.beta4.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit the initramfs line wrong
  
Actual results:

Without any user interaction, kernel panic

Expected results:

Without any user interaction, returns to menu, or waits for keypress



Additional info:

Comment 1 Vladimir Serbinenko 2012-06-02 09:42:53 UTC

GRUB has the same behaviour whether it's executed manually or automatically and changing automatical behaviour is out of the question since it runs risk of GRUB requesting user assistance on minor faults which would be disastrous for servers

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2012-06-03 22:41:01 UTC

While I can see that conistency is good, having it state "press any key to continue", and then continuing without a keypress, is very non-intuitive behavior.

Comment 3 Vladimir Serbinenko 2012-06-03 23:11:22 UTC

It continues either on keypress or on a timeout whichever comes first.

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2012-06-04 06:33:14 UTC

Perhaps then the message could be changed?

Comment 5 Vladimir Serbinenko 2012-06-04 10:19:05 UTC

The strings are frozen now due to translations of 2.00 release.

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