Interactive - Manually booting up the kernel

[shirish शिरीष]

Hi all,
       I am running grub version 1.99-4 .

$ dpkg -l grub-pc
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  grub-pc        1.99-4         GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIO

I am trying to run grub in interactive mode (which means it outputs
stuff a screenful) and then I can see what is going right or wrong.

I saw the info.grub and came to know about  pager=1 thing.

I did see the files /etc/default/grub and /boot/grub/grub.cfg

I do not understand why the pager=1 option does not work.

What I tried to do is on the grub-menu use e to edit 2.6.39. kernel
menu entry and modified the line from :-

linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39-1-amd64 root=UUID=somealphanumericUUIDno
ro init=/sbin/bootchartd quiet

to

linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39-1-amd64 root=UUID=somealphanumericUUIDno ro
init=/sbin/bootchartd pager=1

The change was just from 'quiet' to 'pager=1' . Then to boot pressed
F10. While the booting happened, it did not halt/pause after
information of 1 screenful had passed.

Can somebody tell me what am I doing wrong ?

Btw I also tried using :-

linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39-1-amd64 root=UUID=somealphanumericUUIDno ro

as well as

linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39-1-amd64 root=UUID=somealphanumericUUIDno ro pager=1

both these options also did not work.

Looking forward to info.
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          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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