Bug 830843

This should be fixed in http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=322368 - please confirm.

Created attachment 590944 [details]
The grub.cfg file I tried to edit the 1st kernel entry in

Here's the grub.cfg file I was trying to edit.

The line is very long. It wrapped even on the 1920x1200 monitor I have.

OK, I got the beta6 installed (after discovering that the rpm apparently
doesn't do the grub2-install for me :-), and I didn't freeze my system, but
the editing still didn't work:

In this case I moved the cursor down to the line ending in boot_delay=100.

I then type Ctrl-E to get to the end.

I then hit the backspace key 14 times to erase the boot_delay=100 string,
but the screen still said "boot_del", so it stopped erasing characters
on the display about half way through.

I then when ahead and rebooted with that edited kernel entry, and
the /var/log/messages "kernel command line" message does not have
a boot_del on the end, so it apparently erased the whole thing as far as
booting is concerned, but it still has a real problem with the way it
displays the edits on the screen.

Did you have a line wrap after "boot_del" ... or can you attach a photo to explain exactly how it looked like?

Was it possible to move the cursor around and edit elsewhere after the erasing had stopped working?

The line wrap was right after the q in the "quiet" parameter just before
the boot_delay=100.

The cursor continued to move even after it stopped erasing characters from
the screen, so what I saw was something like:

long line... q\
uiet^boot_del

Where the ^ indicates the cursor position.

I didn't try doing a lot of other editing this time, I suspect the fact that
I did try doing a lot of cursor movement and trying different things the first
time is what got my system frozen :-).

I'm sorry - that build did not contain the patches I thought it did.

Please try again with this snapshot in an unofficial scratch build: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4152623 grub2-2.0-0.37.beta6.4462.fc17

Yep. The grub2-2.0-0.37.beta6.4462.fc17 does indeed seem to fix the editing problems. I could delete characters through the line wrap, then type more characters to make the line wrap again, and everything worked correctly.

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