Hello, There's a concern with the way grub menu entries work: even if a command fails, grub continues with others, like bash's "best-effort" way. This leads to difficult-to-diagnose results: say for instance
multiboot /boot/mykernel module /boot/initrd module /boot/inittask and initrd is too big for the memory for instance. The actual error message that the user will be able to read is "rd0: no such device", because grub will silently ignore the initrd load failure. It'd be better to at least have a way to show the actual error. I've talked a bit with phcoder, the kind of solutions we've come with are - "set -e" command, to disable best-effort - shell-like "&&" to chain commands only if they succeed - introduce a small delay when printing error messages, to keep best effort while still showing the actual grub error. Thoughts? Samuel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
