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Re: Questions for writing manpages


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: Questions for writing manpages
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:51:13 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 05:43:03PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > ** How would you define the "rescue" mode ? In what situation 
> > can it be useful to the user ?
> 
> I think the idea was to move most interactivity to a separate module
> called normal.  If that module is not available, the internal "rescue"
> mode is used to make it possible to load modules.  I don't know how
> practical it is.

Very much.  In GRUB Legacy, when something went wrong, you usually just
got a cryptic error.  Now you can go through the whole thing interactively
and see what prevents you from loading normal.mod.

-- 
Robert Millan

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