Re: No entries seen in grub 2 menu

[Bean]

On Jan 30, 2008 2:05 AM, shirish <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>    First of all Robert, thanx for answering.  I know grub2 uses
> grub2.cfg & not menu.lst but was thinking if there is some way
> whatever is in grub.cfg can be passed to menu.lst so in some way I can
> see the menu without changing the entries manually, but now it seems
> there is no way to do it unless I just am on grub 0.97
>    Now there is another thing which has been the same for the last 6
> months. There is no menu entries in grub2. I get the rectangular box &
> that's it. Just for reference here are the same 2 links :-
>
> http://pastebin.ca/877007 menu.lst (which is of grub 0.97 or grub legacy)
>
> http://pastebin.ca/877010 grub.cfg ( the newer grub uses this)
>
> Now from what little I understand when I click on the first option it
> chainloads to grub2 & tries to read grub.cfg . Now something or the
> other doesn't get it right for I'm not able to see any of the entries.
> I don't know whether it has anything to do with unifont.pff or
> something else?
>
> I know unifont has been having some problems. I reported one such
> thing about 6-7 months which hasn't moved anywhere till now.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unifont/+bug/122565 .
> Subsequently I see this mail
> http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg19430.html
> & it isn't encouraging. If unifont has some issues how can we use
> other fonts? What is the *.pff extension?  This again may be a repost
> hence apologies if they are.
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>           Regards,
>           Shirish Agarwal
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are you using the cvs version ? this bug should be fixed by now.

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Bean