Thierry Vignaud <[email protected]> writes: > On 17 September 2012 21:37, Olivier Blin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> tv <tv> 1.83-1.mga3: >>> + Revision: 295551 >>> - fix modules.order so that cciss got detected (mga#5833) >>> - use new hotplug (mga#6323) >> >> You are duplicating (with full knowledge it seems) the /sbin/hotplug >> script written by make_boot_img. As you noticed, it relied on /bin/sh. >> The shell used to be provided not only for KA, but also to provide a >> convenience shell in stage1. >> Couldn't we add a shell back? > > For years, we only add this shell if DEBUGSTAGE1 was set. > This is still the case > Then for a couple years, stage1 got bloated with KA stuff including busybox > (and thus a shell) by Antoine.
But when KA has been merged in stage1, we meant to keep the shell. > We're just back at prior state. > If you need to debug, you can still rebuild stage1 package with the debug > option. It's not only me, it is also to ease reporting bugs about stage1. Otherwise, there is no way to get a look at the debug log from stage1. -- Olivier Blin - blino
