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Re: [MiNT] Idea for boot sequence



On 12/15/10 3:30 PM, Peter Slegg wrote:
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:32:18 , Jo Even Skarstein<joska@online.no>  wrote:
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 19:37 +0200, Peter Slegg wrote:
And your solution wouldn't do anything about it. That symlink to
xaloader will cause the wrong xaaes.km to be loaded - it can only be
fixed by booting the correct kernel or fixing the symlink. Not by
reading the wrong mint.cnf or loading the wrong modules.

Yes it would, there would be a much greater possibility of getting
back into Mint-XaAES and being able to fix it.
Absolutely not. You will still load the incorrect xaaes.km. The obvious
and simple solution is to simply reboot with the correct kernel. Then
fix the problem - whatever it is - and reboot again.
It might be "incorrect" but who cares as long as it works, just chuck out
a warning and get on with booting.

I kind of don't like this personally. As it is errors get stuffed away and I never see them. I'd like errors to at least pause and ask for a keypress to acknowledge (with a setting to disable this)
People seem to be happy with having hack their way out of non-booting
situations. I was just suggesting a simple change that would make it
infinitely more user friendly if/when it goes wrong.
I'm sorry, but I don't see how. I see a lot of possibilities to create
new problems though ;)

I don't understand why you prefer a system that won't boot and forces
you to get out the starting handle.  ;-)
Because you have a problem that you should deal with. Your alternative means you may not even know you caused a problem or that one exists. This would lead to erroneous bug reports. This can't be good.

Thanks,
Mark