Bug 37737

Summary:	login prompt does allow a return to first line
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Brant Gurganus <brant>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Brant Gurganus 2004-01-09 13:02:08 UTC

Grub spits out probing error messages when it probes my computer's drives.  Every message relates to probing for floppy drives.  My system does not have floppy drives.  Version of GruThe login prompt does not allow me to return the cursor to the previous line if the first line overfilled the first line.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type a string of text longer than your console and let it wrap.
2. Try to return to the previous line by using backspace.
Actual Results:  
It does not work.

Expected Results:  
It should work.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-05-03 12:03:11 UTC

have you tried grub-0.94 ?

Comment 2 Brant Gurganus 2004-05-03 14:25:32 UTC

Woe, some database corruption occured.  These are two issues I reported spliced together.  I was referring to the login for the shell, not grub.  The grub stuff does not apply to this issue.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-03 00:36:43 UTC

please try out grub-0.94-r1 and/or grub-0.95.20040823

if these dont resolve your issues, please open new bugs ... like you say, this bug has been corrupted