From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: grub-probe without arguments
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 22:19:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705082219.30102.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070507200637.GC3143@aragorn>
On Monday 07 May 2007 22:06, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:23:08PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > On Monday 07 May 2007 10:21, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > I think it would be reasonable to allow grub-probe to work without
> > > arguments. Any comments?
> >
> > Why do you think so?
>
> Because it's commonly invoked while debugging. The uninitiated might have
> some trouble figuring out the right parameter (specialy if they're not
> debugging themselves, but providing information for someone else to debug
> e.g. via BTS).
The right parameter depends on system status. For instance, if you are trying
to install GRUB from an installer, and a boot partition is mounted at
somewhere else (e.g. /mnt/boot), it won't work correctly, anyway. I prefer
that grub-probe gets an argument explicitly, so that the user can at least
understand that grub-probe probes a certain directory.
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-08 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-07 8:21 grub-probe without arguments Robert Millan
2007-05-07 19:23 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2007-05-07 20:06 ` Robert Millan
2007-05-08 20:19 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2007-05-08 20:27 ` Otavio Salvador
2007-05-09 15:18 ` Robert Millan
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