Ian Chapman wrote: : Dean S. Messing wrote: : > Is this a known bug, or something I've done to my system? : > If it's my system how do I proceed to debug it? : : Ok stupid question, but you're definately using bash right? What does : : echo $SHELL : : say. Not stupid at all. Outside of the grub shell: root@medulla ~]# echo $SHELL /bin/bash Inside of the grub shell: root@medulla ~]# grub Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ 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.] grub> echo $SHELL echo $SHELL Error 27: Unrecognized command grub> quit quit [root@medulla ~]# Also, the commandline works properly outside of grub. Dean