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bug #39217: document booting submenu items in the grub-reboot --help output and manual page

Submitter:  Paul Wise <pabs>
Submitted:  Mon 10 Jun 2013 04:12:46 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Documentation Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Feature Request
Status:  Fixed Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name: 
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  other
Release:  Reproducibility:  None
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Fri 21 Jun 2013 01:14:00 AM UTC, comment #1: 

This also applies to grub-set-default.

Also, using > as the submenu separator is problematic, as you have to quote it or escape it with a backslash to prevent the shell from interpreting it as a redirection.  Any documentation update should clearly mention that quoting is required.

Ideally, it should be : or . or something else that doesn't require quoting.


Craig Sanders <csanders>
Mon 10 Jun 2013 04:12:46 AM UTC, original submission:  

Please add a sentence in the grub-reboot --help output and manual page mentioning that rebooting submenu items requires a special syntax, something like this:

ENTRY is a number or a menu item title. Please note that menu items in submenus or sub-submenus require specifying the submenu titles and then the menu item title. The titles should be separated using the greater-than character (>) with no extra spaces. More information about this is available in the GRUB Manual in the section about the 'default' command.

Paul Wise <pabs>

 

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