From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KUk7K-0004Db-Hn for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:24:30 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KUk7H-0004Cp-Ol for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:24:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KUk7G-0004CG-An for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:24:27 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37424 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KUk7G-0004CA-1G for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:24:26 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:55553) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KUk7F-0006ig-Im for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:24:25 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KUjyi-0007Nm-Tc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:15:37 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KUk62-0002eI-8p for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:23:10 +0200 Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:23:10 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080817152310.GA9696@thorin> References: <20080811203024.GA6883@thorin> <87skt99qn4.fsf@xs4all.nl> <20080816121654.GA6334@thorin> <20080817145234.GA9153@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: [PATCH] Split of raid scan code 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: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:24:28 -0000 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."