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Date:      Tue, 14 Jul 2015 07:44:45 -0700
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: grub-bhyve: editing boot commands
Message-ID:  <55A5205D.3050202@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <55A4D73D.3000308@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <55A4D73D.3000308@FreeBSD.org>

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Hi Andriy,

> In the grub-bhyve menu of boot entries I can press 'e' and enter a screen where
> I can modify boot commands for that entry.
> The screen has the following help information at the bootom:
> 	Minimum Emacs-like screen editing is supported.
> 	TAB lists completions.
> 	Press Ctrl-x or F10 to boot, Ctrl-c or F2 for a command-line
> 	or ESC to discard edits and return to the GRUB menu.
>
> I can make any edits in that screen, but of the mentioned key presses only TAB
> and ESC work as advertised.  Ctrl-x, F10, Ctrl-c, F2 are all ignored.
> Is there a way to make them work?
>
> P.S. I tried running grub-bhyve in KDE's konsole and xterm.

  I've never been able to get those to work. I suspect it's that the 
curses terminal code hasn't been exercised a lot. I'll have a look.

later,

Peter.



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