: On 25/09/2007, Dean S. Messing wrote: : > : > Also I see in the "info page" the following notice: <snip> : > : > This chapter documents the grub shell `grub'. Note that the grub shell : > is an emulator; it doesn't run under the native environment, so it : > sometimes does something wrong. Therefore, you shouldn't trust it too : > much. If there is anything wrong with it, don't hesitate to try the : > native GRUB environment, especially when it guesses a wrong map between : > BIOS drives and OS devices. : > <snip> : > : > So, I take it that this means it is not using the system bash? : : The GRUB shell is not equal to bash. It is a small shell which : implements the commands listed by the "help" command. The only form of : TAB completion it offers is completion of GRUB commands. E.g. when you : type "partn" and hit TAB, it completes to "partnew". Or when you enter : "con" and hit TAB, it completes to "configfile". When I hit TAB, the cursor just moves over (on the F7 x86_64 machine). On all my other machines (1 FC5 32bit machine, 2 FC6 32bit machines, 1 FC6 64bit machine) grub TAB completion, and the other bash-like editing commands, work correctly. I'm beginning to think this is a bug in the F7 64-bit package. : > Not sure what "the native GRUB environment" means?". : : When you _boot_ your system into GRUB and enter the command-shell from : there as opposed to starting the GRUB shell from within a running : Linux OS. I rebooted, got into that environment, and TAB completion works! I am now even more at a loss (and I was already entirely at a loss :-). Dean.
