From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 00:54:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802070054.29193.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2008.02.06.23.18.51@robots.org.uk>
On Thursday 07 February 2008 00:19, Sam Morris wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:49:24 +0000, Sam Morris wrote:
> > Then the screen blanks, and the next thing printed is:
> >
> > Welcome to GRUB!
> >
> > Entering into rescue mode...
> > grub rescue>
> >
> > Whereupon I can enter 'insmod normal' and then 'normal' to get to the
> > regular boot menu.
>
> I modified the grub_load_normal_mode function in kern/main.c to print out
> the value of grub_errno after calling 'grub_dl_load ("normal")'. The
> result was 11, which corresponds to GRUB_ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE.
>
> I think it would be a good idea to modify the code to print out a
> description of the error at this point, or at least to display the error
> number, so that users know why they are being booted into the rescue
> shell.
Clever idea. I think it is crucial to add this kind of code more and more to
GRUB, because the user often doesn't want to patch and recompile and
reinstall, again and again.
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-06 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-04 21:36 grub2 and Linux software RAID devices Sam Morris
2008-02-04 22:43 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-05 0:44 ` Sam Morris
2008-02-05 9:38 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-07 20:35 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2008-02-07 21:32 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-05 1:32 ` Sam Morris
2008-02-05 9:35 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-06 0:49 ` Sam Morris
2008-02-06 23:19 ` Sam Morris
2008-02-06 23:54 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2008-02-07 12:45 ` Robert Millan
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