RE: little problem with grub2.cfg and if cmd

[Dany Flores]

First I using the vanilla version of grub2, and to edit the grub.cfg I used vim,
so is not a error for that.

   The other test that I did, was to type this lines in the grub console.

set CQTEST=3
if [ ${CQTESS} = 3 ]; then
   ls
fi
 
    And they show me the same error. 

   More info:

   My server is a hp with a UEFI bios and I use SLES11SP2, everything works 
except the if command.




> From: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 02:04:21 +0000
> Subject: Re: little problem with grub2.cfg and if cmd
> To: address@hidden
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> In the future please don't send html email to help-grub (or almost any
> other technical mailing list).
> 
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Dany Flores <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> This is the problem that I have, using grub 2.0 I have some problem with
>> the if command, this is part of my grub.cfg
>>
>> set CQTEST=3
>> if [ ${CQTESS} = 3 ]; then
>> set GRUB_DEFAULT=2
>> else
>> set GRUB_DEFAULT=0
>> fi
> 
> While you are changing the wrong variable ($GRUB_DEFAULT is the
> variable used in /etc/default/grub, in the grub.cfg the variable is
> simply $default), I don't see how the code above, as plain text, would
> give the error message you received (at least not with grub upstream
> grub 2.00). The fact that in your original email different lines had
> different font sizes for no reason that I could tell makes me
> suspicious that you may be using a word processor like Open Office to
> edit your grub.cfg, if that's the case you should not do that. Using a
> word processor (as opposed to a text editor) to edit configuration
> files can lead to odd errors, among other things important things like
> quotation marks (" ") are often replaced with smart quotes and if
> you're really unlucky you may even get formatting garbage in your
> configuration file. Always use text editors for editing configuration
> files.
> 
>>
>> Is very simple, but when boot the server, show me an error, error: can't
>> find command `['.
>>
>> I need to do something or load another module or if not possible to do
>> something like my example
>>
> 
> Modules are automatically loaded as needed (except when running Fedora
> and possibly other distros modified grub in a secure boot environment,
> in which case insmod is disabled entirely) so you should not need to
> load modules explicitly for any command. If you are not editing your
> grub.cfg with a word processor please include the complete grub.cfg
> you're having issues with as well as the output of "grub-install
> --version" in a reply.
> 
> -- 
> Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net)                                   
>