From: "Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Idea: elimination of the normal mode
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:53:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <486FB514.5040000@nic.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <486FB17C.7020705@coresystems.de>
Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
>> Idea of the rescue shell is load other modules in case grub itself
>> cannot find them. It provides thin layer of tools so user is able to
>> find them.
>>
>> Personally I would like to keep this functionality in core.img.
> So, how is the "rescue shell" different that "grub itself". Why would it
> find modules that "grub itself" does not find?
User can use ls and insmod commands to load those modules from disk.
Most common problem with GRUB legacy is that it just prints GRUB on
screen. This will kinda remove that problem as user still has a way to
boot his system with some keypresses.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-05 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-05 2:46 Idea: elimination of the normal mode Bean
2008-07-05 12:15 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-05 17:06 ` Stefan Reinauer
2008-07-05 17:28 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-07-05 17:38 ` Stefan Reinauer
2008-07-05 17:53 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen [this message]
2008-07-05 18:00 ` Stefan Reinauer
2008-07-05 18:10 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-07-05 18:39 ` Bean
2008-07-05 19:08 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-07-05 17:32 ` Bean
2008-07-05 17:37 ` Bean
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