From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Split of raid scan code
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:23:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080817152310.GA9696@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca0f59980808170808s71436447m5d410aab1e9c8570@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 11:08:07PM +0800, Bean wrote:
> >>
> >> grub-probe don't use the recover module, so if it have problem at
> >> install time, user would know about it (error message would be
> >> "raid5rec not loaded").
> >
> > Sounds fine to me. But the error message is too cryptic IMHO. Consider the
> > situation in which user was running grub-install and sees this error.
> > Shouldn't we tell her to fix the RAID instead?
>
> Hi,
>
> How about "please load raid5rec.mod to enable raid5 recovery" ?
Ah, I was thinking the recommended solution was to fix the RAID instead so
that it won't need recovery.
Are you sure asking to have raid5rec loaded is a good idea? It might not
fit, which IIUC was the problem we were trying to avoid.
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-17 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-10 11:52 [PATCH] Split of raid scan code Bean
2008-08-10 12:13 ` Felix Zielcke
2008-08-10 14:29 ` Robert Millan
2008-08-10 14:45 ` Bean
2008-08-10 15:49 ` Bean
2008-08-11 18:45 ` Bean
2008-08-11 20:13 ` Bean
2008-08-11 20:24 ` Bean
2008-08-11 20:30 ` Robert Millan
2008-08-12 11:49 ` Bean
2008-08-12 12:24 ` Felix Zielcke
2008-08-12 13:32 ` Robert Millan
2008-08-13 10:05 ` Marco Gerards
2008-08-13 18:43 ` Bean
2008-08-13 20:01 ` Bean
2008-08-16 9:07 ` Bean
2008-08-16 12:16 ` Robert Millan
2008-08-16 15:20 ` Bean
2008-08-17 14:19 ` Bean
2008-08-17 14:52 ` Robert Millan
2008-08-17 15:08 ` Bean
2008-08-17 15:23 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2008-08-18 17:20 ` Bean
2008-08-23 14:51 ` Bean
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