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From: Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Better error handling
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:39:56 +0200
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While talking to David Zeuthen, he mentioned that our current error handling is 
not very user friendly and I agree.

Presenting the user the message "Boot has failed, sleeping forever." does not 
really help.

Instead of displaying the message, we could:

- turn "rdshell" into "rd.no_shell" and drop to a shell by default.
   Admins with security concerns will lock grub with a password, and can add
   the "rd.no_shell" parameter.

- add simple tools to present the user a list of mountable partitions, assemble 
lvms, md, dmraid and mount network devices.


What do you think?