From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: normal mode chainloader
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:34:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200406231234.44326.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040623071008.GB18914@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
On Wednesday 23 June 2004 09:10, Tomas Ebenlendr wrote:
> > This will be fixed by the autoloading that was proposed on the
> > list. If someone uses the boot command, the boot.mod will be
> > autoloaded. So I think it is not a requirement.
>
> That is not true in all cases. E.g. when there is corrupted or
> missing boot.mod, or when autoloading is off.
If you cannot load boot.mod for a reason, what you get is the same as
when a loader module cannot be loaded: The difference is only that you
cannot execute boot or, say, linux. For ordinary users, these look
identical. The only solution for these cases is to go back to the
rescue mode and boot something from it. Then, there is no way to
provide a good interface anyway.
If autoloading is off (although I'm not sure if it is better to allow
the user to turn it off), the user should know what he/she does. He/She
should load all required modules explicitly. This means that this
person knows how GRUB works. For this person, it is no problem to load
boot.mod manually.
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-23 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-21 18:00 normal mode chainloader Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-06-22 9:00 ` Marco Gerards
2004-06-22 11:33 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-06-22 19:52 ` Marco Gerards
2004-06-23 7:10 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-06-23 10:34 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2004-06-23 10:40 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-06-22 11:41 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-06-22 20:25 ` Marco Gerards
2004-06-23 7:29 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-06-23 10:55 ` Marco Gerards
2004-06-23 17:20 ` Jeroen Dekkers
2004-06-23 8:11 ` Copyright crap Was: " Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-06-23 8:59 ` Jeroen Dekkers
2004-06-23 10:43 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-06-23 11:58 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-06-23 16:49 ` Marco Gerards
2004-06-24 8:44 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-06-24 15:26 ` Marco Gerards
2004-06-24 16:51 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-07-01 10:54 ` Marco Gerards
2004-07-01 11:17 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-07-01 11:53 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-07-01 13:30 ` Marco Gerards
2004-07-01 16:03 ` history, autoloading was: " Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-09-10 22:05 ` Marco Gerards
2004-09-12 12:46 ` Marco Gerards
2004-09-17 18:48 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-09-17 18:53 ` M. Gerards
2004-09-17 19:32 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-09-17 19:38 ` M. Gerards
2004-09-20 6:58 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-09-21 8:22 ` Module loading - grub-emu, bug in kern/dl.c Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-11-17 15:43 ` Marco Gerards
2004-11-17 20:30 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-11-17 20:45 ` Marco Gerards
2004-11-22 15:18 ` Timothy Baldwin
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