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

[Leandro Dorileo]

Hi Jason

On Wednesday 13 September 2006 18:26, Jason Thomas wrote:
> option C, we create a way to extract the version information from every
> grub file. So that the grub shell can check that its version matches
> the stage files and if not generate an ERROR message.

I tryied to understand how to do this ~2 months ago but didnt have time to go 
deep on it. How do you think it should be done?

I saw a patch[1] sent by  Mats Erik Andersson and it seems to be ok(needs just 
little changes), I`m going to try it better.

[1] 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-grub-devel/2006-September/001998.html

--
Dorileo

>
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:05:38AM +0200, Marc Fargas wrote:
> > 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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