Re: [PATCH] improve error messages in grub-setup

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 01:04:33PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 18:55 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> > Agreed.  It's no harm to add --force for users who are stuck in such 
> > layouts.
> > 
> > Here's a new patch.
> 
> I don't see the "force" variable affecting anything in setup() other
> than output.

There is, see:

+  grub_util_warn ("Embedding is not possible.  GRUB can only be installed in 
this "
+                 "setup by using blocklists.  However, blocklists are 
UNRELIABLE and "
+                 "its use is discouraged.");
+  if (! force)
+    grub_util_error ("If you really want blocklists, use --force.");

The first is always displayed, the latter only when we don't have --force

> grub_util_warn() doesn't set any flag that there have been
> warnings.

That's an option, too.  But it would preclude the possibility of issuing
warnings for which we don't want to require --force (i.e. lesser evils).
I wonder if that would be a problem?

-- 
Robert Millan

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