From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Questions for writing manpages
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:51:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080131105113.GC10889@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1201732983.8103.62.camel@dv>
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 05:43:03PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > ** How would you define the "rescue" mode ? In what situation
> > can it be useful to the user ?
>
> I think the idea was to move most interactivity to a separate module
> called normal. If that module is not available, the internal "rescue"
> mode is used to make it possible to load modules. I don't know how
> practical it is.
Very much. In GRUB Legacy, when something went wrong, you usually just
got a cryptic error. Now you can go through the whole thing interactively
and see what prevents you from loading normal.mod.
--
Robert Millan
<GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call!
<DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak?
(as seen on /.)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-31 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-30 22:13 Questions for writing manpages Franklin PIAT
2008-01-30 22:29 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-30 23:45 ` Franklin PIAT
2008-01-31 10:49 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-31 20:54 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-31 21:28 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-01-31 21:32 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30 22:43 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-31 10:51 ` Robert Millan [this message]
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