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grub package

Can't list partitions or files in GRUB

Bug #213710 reported by Darius
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grub (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Wishlist
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: grub

It doesn't appear possible to be able to list devices (ie what can be passed to root) or files (what you'd actually want to boot).

A friend of mine says you can use tab completion but this isn't mentioned in the help in any case.

It would be nice to have an ls command (for files) and, say, lsdev (for devices that can be mounted).

Fixing the documentation to mention tab completion would be nice too :)

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Muhammad Takdir (muhammad-takdir) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

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Darius (darius-dons) wrote :

It's basically a feature request.. (or a documentation one)

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Muhammad Takdir (muhammad-takdir) wrote :

so do you mean is something like proposed new package ?

but, you can try to click
Places => Computer
to see all device that can be mounted :)

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Darius (darius-dons) wrote :

Hmm this is in Grub, not in Ubuntu..
My suggestion was that it should have commands to list devices & files rather than rely on you knowing tab completion works.

Also documenting tab completion would be a good thing.

Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in grub:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Ori Avtalion (salty-horse) wrote :

Tab completion is sort of documented in:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Naming-convention.html
beginning with:
"To help you find out which number specifies a partition you want, the GRUB command-line options have argument completion."

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Darius (darius-dons) wrote :

Yes, but unfortunately my PC wasn't booting so I couldn't read the online docs :)

I think prefacing the 'help' output with a similar line would be a good way to go.

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

As has been pointed out already, grub legacy supports tab completion to help you find devices and files. Grub legacy is no longer supported and we have moved to grub 2, which has a proper ls command that will list devices and files, therefore I will now close this bug.

Changed in grub (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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