On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Robert Millan wrote: > 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. > > > 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.
Sorry but I don't understand how you concile the two sentences that you gave: - on one side you say that "-t drive" only fails when device.map is wrong and you accept that we invite the user to regenerate it - on the other side you tell me that trying to regenerate it only when "-t drive" fails has been tried and was worse than the problem What do I miss ? I could understand that always regenerating device.map would be worse and wrong (and it's possibly this that got tried). But I only suggested to regenerate it when we have serious suspicion that device.map is wrong and _not_ always. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
