Bug#345931: If the problem is that the user doesn't know he won't be able to reboot...

[Marc Fargas]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:
> Surely this is still a bug in the grub shell for failing to notice that it
> had rendered the system unbootable?

Grub shell is supposed to be used by "experienced" users, and if the
big problem is that setup() doesn't copy those files to /boot/ there
are two lines of action:
a) On a call to setup() output a nice warning message that clearly
says that the files MUST be manually copied by the user encouragin the
use of grub-install
b) On a call to setup() take care of copying the files.

I'd vote for option a, with that warning in place the bug would be ok,
right? I've never touched inside grub but I can try to patch it if you
select A, and less maybe for B ;) [so, is option A ok for closing the
bug? at least the user knows that he/she won't boot again... hehe]

Cheers,
Marc.

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The probability of failure of a (computer) system is exponentially
proportional to the physical distance between it and the one who could
fix it. -- Martin F. Krafft