I'm not a regular on this list, but as a computer technician who's had to put up with frustrated users who don't read menus and such carefully (or understand them), let me just say:
+1 ! On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:16 AM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'd like to know the motivation behind the change made to the recovery mode > in Oneiric. For those who don't know: selecting the '(recovery mode)' entry > in GRUB now stops in a read-only mode with following menu: > > Recovery Menu (limited read-only menu) > * resume Resume normal boot > * fsck Check all file systems (will exit read-only mode) > * remount Remount / read/write and mount all other file systems > * root Drop to root shell prompt > > After selecting 'remount' (and pressing Enter after a successful remount), > a second menu shows up: > > Recovery Menu > * resume Resume normal boot > * clean Try to make free space > * dpkg Repair broken packages > * grub Update grub bootloader > * netroot Drop to root shell prompt with networking > * root Drop to root shell prompt > > So far so good. The problem with this is, that users don't realize that > something has changed. They follow some guide involving using the recovery > mode to get to a root shell prompt, they see that option in the first menu, > and land in a read-only environment instead. The result: > > "This doesn't work!" > "How can I remount the file system?" > "I think my file system is damaged." > > To ask the obvious question: Why haven't those menus be merged? Three of > the four entries in the first menu will leave the read-only mode, so why not > add 'fsck' and 'read-only' to the second one and make lots of authors and > users happy again? :) > > Greetings, > > Hernando Torque > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/** > mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel> >
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