Yes, we should improve GRUB errors. I will add this information to an existing RFE:
6681159" need better informed error messages in grub" Lin On 11/17/08 07:56, Lori Alt wrote: > Bill Shannon wrote: >> Lin Ling wrote: >>> Error 16 could indeed mean the filesystem is corrupted. I remember >>> Ethan >>> got into this state once, but we didn't figure out why the >>> filesystem got bad. >> >> Doesn't it bother anyone that a zfs filesystem was corrupted, no one >> knows why, and scrub doesn't report any errors? >> > > Well, it bothers me. One of the things that would have helped > is a better error message from grub. I notice that the > ERR_FSYS_CORRUPT error code is returned all over > the place in the zfs plugin without any further detail > given about which specific corruption has appeared. > I know that GRUB isn't a very friendly programming > environment, but I'm wondering if there's a way to > get more information on failures. > > Lori
