From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HloVW-0000QB-8V for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 11:55:14 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HloVS-0000J1-AH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 11:55:10 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HloVP-0000Dp-Ca for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 11:55:09 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HloVP-0000Dc-3i for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 11:55:07 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HloOB-0001XN-Hz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 11:47:39 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=aragorn) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HlnvO-0005ep-BM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 17:17:55 +0200 Received: from rmh by aragorn with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hlnvb-0004L7-UM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 17:18:07 +0200 Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 17:18:07 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20070509151807.GA16626@aragorn> References: <20070507082135.GA8703@aragorn> <200705072123.08398.okuji@enbug.org> <20070507200637.GC3143@aragorn> <200705082219.30102.okuji@enbug.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200705082219.30102.okuji@enbug.org> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Microsoft discourages use of Outlook. X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: grub-probe without arguments X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 15:55:10 -0000 On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:19:30PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > 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. Ah, ok. I understand. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is honeypot@aybabtu.com. Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list.