[bug #27862] No error message on incorrect command

[Sebastian Gerhardt-2]

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                 Summary: No error message on incorrect command
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: vandys
            Submitted on: Fri 30 Oct 2009 02:51:14 PM GMT
                Category: Booting
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Software Error
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Andy Valencia
        Originator Email: vandys@...
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release:
                 Release: other
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

GRUB as installed in Ubuntu Karmic (1.97 beta 4), if you drop to command mode
and enter an unknown command:

kernel= (hd0,1)/foo/bar/...

You just get another prompt, without any complaint about the command being
unknown.





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[Sebastian Gerhardt-2]

Update of bug #27862 (project grub):

                  Status:                    None => Invalid                
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                

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Follow-up Comment #1:

For an unknown command you get the error message unknown command.

>kernel= (hd0,1)/foo/bar/...
       ^
This isn't valid at all with GRUB Legecy
With GRUB 2 it's assigning a variable, so it's perfectly fine.

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[Sebastian Gerhardt-2]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #27862 (project grub):

I think I've been using GRUB longer than you... this was the canonical way to
specify arguments when VSTa first adopted GRUB.  Admittedly, that was a while
ago.  Still, I hadn't guessed that you folks had not only switched to a
different way of specifying arguments, but had also made the old syntax mean
something new.  In any case, thanks for the quick response!


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[Sebastian Gerhardt-2]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #27862 (project grub):

I have no doubts that you used GRUB Legacy more then me ;)
Ok I even bothered now to try this actually out.
Strange that it really understands kernel=/x
The official manual at least tells nothing about this, according to grep '='
grub.texi

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[Sebastian Gerhardt-2]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #27862 (project grub):

Yeah, I'm a dinosaur. :->

Anyway, I really doubt people like me need to be well-served in what we
remember from the days of the 386.  Thanks again for the quick response.


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