Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 220388
grub plays "dumb"
Last modified: 2008-04-03 17:53:32 EDT
Description of problem: After typing 'grub' one gets: [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename.] Moreover 'info grub' claims in section '13.2.14 terminal': Select a terminal for user interaction. The terminal is assumed to be VT100-compatible unless `--dumb' is specified. So far so good but typing "terminal" at grub prompt, with no '--dumb' specification, brings: grub> terminal terminal console (dumb) (no edit) and indeed there is no edit which is really PITA if one needs to do something from a grub shell and which happens; sometimes even not that infreqently. In particular there is no way to check which devices grub really sees as device.map is not always sufficient for that. What gives? This used to work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grub-0.97-13 (at least)
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.