FS#27325 - [linux] Revert from annoying unhelpful warning message in linux.install
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Opened by Mark (voidzero) - Tuesday, 29 November 2011, 15:57 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Tuesday, 10 January 2012, 13:01 GMT
Opened by Mark (voidzero) - Tuesday, 29 November 2011, 15:57 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Tuesday, 10 January 2012, 13:01 GMT
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In linux.install:
echo "WARNING: /boot appears to be a seperate partition but is not mounted." echo " You probably just broke your system. Congratulations." Previous linux.install contained: echo "WARNING: /boot appears to be a seperate partition but is not mounted" echo " This is most likely not what you want. Please mount your /boot" echo " partition and reinstall the kernel unless you are sure this is OK" I'm not sure why this change occurred and of the reason behind it ("congratulations")...? A rude choice that is not helpful but annyoing at most :) The old message was better and should be reinstated - or improved: "WARNING: /boot is enabled in fstab as a separate partition, but is currently not mounted. This is most likely....etc." |
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Closed by Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Tuesday, 10 January 2012, 13:01 GMT
Reason for closing: None
Additional comments about closing: Removed major part of this message.
Tuesday, 10 January 2012, 13:01 GMT
Reason for closing: None
Additional comments about closing: Removed major part of this message.
About the new message: Arch tries not to deal with broken user setups. In my opinion, there should be no message at all - but then users reported their own fuckups as bugs. If you broke your system in such a way that some system partitions are not mounted (such as /boot), there is really no point in giving you instructions. Clearly, you know better anyway.
And by the way, there is no intention by developers to "advertise Arch" whatsoever, so that's not an argument. Furthermore, the message helps users realize that they hit an actual problem that will prevent them from booting next time. The old message was often ignored.
In my opinion, this check should have never been added in the first place, pacman or the kernel package shouldn't care about whether the user broke his filesystem layout.