Package: user-setup Severity: normal Quoting Lennart Sorensen (lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca): > In current debian-installer images (at least last I tried about a month > ago), when you boot rescue mode, you are prompted for root password > and username and such before being prompted for which partition to > use for rescue mode. This was never the case in earlier releases. > Given these questions serve no purpose what so ever for rescue mode, > could they please be moved so that they don't needlessly make going into > rescue mode ask half a dozen useless questions? > > I have no idea what controls the ordering, but something changed that > has made rescue mode a lot less convinient now. Might be nice to fix > that again before squeeze. Having used it probably 200 times in a > row while trying to get grub2 working on an IBM powerpc, it got pretty > tedious typing answers all those username and password prompts again > and again, all the while knowing it was totally pointless.
This certainly comes from the following:
user-setup (1.30) unstable; urgency=low
[ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
* Move main-menu item before partitioning and installation of the base
system, to get more questions earlier during installation.
This mail will create the bug report. I assign it to user-setup,
though it might become needed to reassign it to rescue and try to deal
with that in this package.
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