Hi everyone, I am testing Fedora 18-beta which uses "GNU GRUB version 2.00~beta4". I have discovered the following problem and I have also found a workaround.
After booting I pressed 'e' key in order to edit the config text. Using arrow keys I navigated to the line starting with "linux". My aim was to add the digit '3' after the end of this line which is quite a common task when you want to boot in text mode, e.g. when x11 graphics mode needs to be configured. This long line appears wrapped across three lines and it is impossible to navigate to the end of the line. In my special case the last word was "quiet" but I could only read "q\". The following workaround helped me to get the job done: I replaced the TAB-characters at the left and right postions near "linux" through spaces and then I could jump to the end-of-line position as expected. Therefore, this editor seems to have internal troubles expanding TAB-characters to spaces and counting the resulting columns correctly. This problem is perfectly reproducable among multiple Fedora 18-beta installations. BTW, in a virtualized environemnt, this editor takes 100% CPU power of the host machine which should not be necessary. Kind regards Christoph -- Christoph Bodner 6020 Innsbruck, Kohlweg 4 AUSTRIA _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub