GNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #35986, Malfunctioning editor during boot.
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bug #35986: Malfunctioning editor during boot.
Submitter: | Paweł Rumian <gorkypl> | ||
Submitted: | Sat 24 Mar 2012 01:42:48 PM UTC | ||
Category: | User Interface | Severity: | Major |
Priority: | 5 - Normal | Item Group: | Software Error |
Status: | Fixed | Privacy: | Public |
Assigned to: | None | Originator Name: | |
Open/Closed: | Closed | Release: | Bazaar - trunk |
Release: | Reproducibility: | Every Time | |
Planned Release: | None |
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The built-in editor seems to be malfuctioning. Precisely:
- pressing 'del' key resulted in deleting 7 chars
- the border of the edit menu screen on the right side looks broken (text goes past the border)
- GRUB seems to discard the changes made in the editor and boots with the previous options
Steps to reproduce:
- I boot to grub2
- I set the cursor on the desired line
- I press 'e' to enter edit mode
- I move down to the relevant line - in my case it is 'linux vmlinuz-old root=/dev/sda5 ro'
- I set the cursor on the '-' between 'vmlinuz' and 'old'
- I press DEL
- 7 (!) chars are deleted
- I recreate the missing part of the line, which now looks like: 'linux vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 ro'
- I press F10 (or Ctrl-X, result is the same) to boot
- booted kernel is still vmlinuz-old (!)
I am using sys-boot/grub-2.00_beta2-r1 in Gentoo, which is based on svn trunk version of GRUB.
The original bug report:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409341