From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JKX2n-0003sS-C8 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:53:21 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKX2k-0003rj-C6 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:53:18 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKX2i-0003qp-PE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:53:17 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKX2h-0003qd-NJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:53:16 -0500 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 1JKX2h-0001nB-Li for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:53:15 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JKX2c-0005yY-5U for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:53:10 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JKX0j-00032W-3F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:51:13 +0100 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:51:13 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080131105113.GC10889@thorin> References: <1201731230.15073.45.camel@solid.paris.klabs.be> <1201732983.8103.62.camel@dv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1201732983.8103.62.camel@dv> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Questions for writing manpages 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: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:53:18 -0000 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 I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)