On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:27:29AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > I have two concerns with this: > - grub-probe can possibly fail in other circumstances and we will display > a misleading error message in those cases
grub-probe's messages aren't always appropiate for grub legacy's update-grub (see #495909). Besides, when "-t drive" fails it always means that device.map is wrong. > - the installation will still fail and most users have no idea what > device.map really is. If you go that route, you should at least give > them the command-line to execute to regenerate the device.map Seems fine. > But in the mean time for Grub 1, wouldn't the best solution simply be > to regenerate the device.map in case of errors and try again ? We tried this, and the solution was worse than the problem. In the end it had to be reverted. -- 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." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
