* bug#34184: Nitpick on reconfigure message: Installing for i386-pc platform.
@ 2019-01-23 21:12 swedebugia
2019-01-23 21:40 ` Leo Famulari
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From: swedebugia @ 2019-01-23 21:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 34184
"Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported."
After reboot:
$ uname -a
Linux komputilo 4.20.3-gnu #1 SMP 1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
The i386 is technically incorrect according to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386 and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64
I think we should drop the line and keep "Installation finished. No
error reported."
--
Cheers
Swedebugia
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* bug#34184: Nitpick on reconfigure message: Installing for i386-pc platform.
2019-01-23 21:12 bug#34184: Nitpick on reconfigure message: Installing for i386-pc platform swedebugia
@ 2019-01-23 21:40 ` Leo Famulari
2019-01-23 22:14 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-05-13 21:52 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Leo Famulari @ 2019-01-23 21:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: swedebugia; +Cc: 34184
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 10:12:58PM +0100, swedebugia wrote:
> "Installing for i386-pc platform.
> Installation finished. No error reported."
This message comes from GRUB. Not having read the GRUB docs closely, I
assume it refers to the bootloader style ("PC" vs EFI) rather than the
CPU architecture.
I agree it's a bit misleading, especially to non-technical users. I
wonder how it could be improved, however?
In the long run, I think we should offer a graphical interface to `guix
system`, `guix package`, etc, and in that case non-technical users would
never see this message.
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* bug#34184: Nitpick on reconfigure message: Installing for i386-pc platform.
2019-01-23 21:12 bug#34184: Nitpick on reconfigure message: Installing for i386-pc platform swedebugia
2019-01-23 21:40 ` Leo Famulari
@ 2019-01-23 22:14 ` Julien Lepiller
2019-01-23 22:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-05-13 21:52 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Julien Lepiller @ 2019-01-23 22:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: swedebugia, 34184
Le 23 janvier 2019 22:12:58 GMT+01:00, swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> a écrit :
>"Installing for i386-pc platform.
>Installation finished. No error reported."
>
>After reboot:
> $ uname -a
>Linux komputilo 4.20.3-gnu #1 SMP 1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>The i386 is technically incorrect according to
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386 and
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64
>
>I think we should drop the line and keep "Installation finished. No
>error reported."
Hi, this message is actually from grub-install and is perfectly correct: it means it's intalling in legacy (bios) mode. "No error reported" is also from grub and is very confusing…
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* bug#34184: Nitpick on reconfigure message: Installing for i386-pc platform.
2019-01-23 22:14 ` Julien Lepiller
@ 2019-01-23 22:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-24 7:41 ` swedebugia
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From: Ricardo Wurmus @ 2019-01-23 22:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Julien Lepiller; +Cc: 34184
Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
> Le 23 janvier 2019 22:12:58 GMT+01:00, swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> a écrit :
>>"Installing for i386-pc platform.
>>Installation finished. No error reported."
>>
>>After reboot:
>> $ uname -a
>>Linux komputilo 4.20.3-gnu #1 SMP 1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>>The i386 is technically incorrect according to
>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386 and
>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64
>>
>>I think we should drop the line and keep "Installation finished. No
>>error reported."
>
> Hi, this message is actually from grub-install and is perfectly
> correct: it means it's intalling in legacy (bios) mode. "No error
> reported" is also from grub and is very confusing…
Maybe we should
1) prefix messages from other tools with the name of the tool, and
2) hide these tool messages by default behind descriptive messages like
“installing bootloader”
What do you think?
--
Ricardo
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* bug#34184: Nitpick on reconfigure message: Installing for i386-pc platform.
2019-01-23 22:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
@ 2019-01-24 7:41 ` swedebugia
2019-01-25 22:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-02-12 17:46 ` Leo Famulari
2 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: swedebugia @ 2019-01-24 7:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ricardo Wurmus, Julien Lepiller; +Cc: 34184
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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skrev: (23 januari 2019 23:27:26 CET)
>
>Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
>
>> Le 23 janvier 2019 22:12:58 GMT+01:00, swedebugia
><swedebugia@riseup.net> a écrit :
>>>"Installing for i386-pc platform.
>>>Installation finished. No error reported."
>>>
>>>After reboot:
>>> $ uname -a
>>>Linux komputilo 4.20.3-gnu #1 SMP 1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>>The i386 is technically incorrect according to
>>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386 and
>>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64
>>>
>>>I think we should drop the line and keep "Installation finished. No
>>>error reported."
>>
>> Hi, this message is actually from grub-install and is perfectly
>> correct: it means it's intalling in legacy (bios) mode. "No error
>> reported" is also from grub and is very confusing…
>
>Maybe we should
>
>1) prefix messages from other tools with the name of the tool, and
>2) hide these tool messages by default behind descriptive messages like
>“installing bootloader”
>
>What do you think?
>
>--
>Ricardo
+1 😃
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* bug#34184: Nitpick on reconfigure message: Installing for i386-pc platform.
2019-01-23 22:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-24 7:41 ` swedebugia
@ 2019-01-25 22:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-02-12 17:46 ` Leo Famulari
2 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2019-01-25 22:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ricardo Wurmus; +Cc: 34184
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
[...]
>> Hi, this message is actually from grub-install and is perfectly
>> correct: it means it's intalling in legacy (bios) mode. "No error
>> reported" is also from grub and is very confusing…
>
> Maybe we should
>
> 1) prefix messages from other tools with the name of the tool, and
> 2) hide these tool messages by default behind descriptive messages like
> “installing bootloader”
>
> What do you think?
Good idea, that would avoid confusions; I’m fine one way or the other.
It may still be useful, though, to grab the raw messages from these
tools in case something goes wrong (or even if it succeeds but
‘grub-install’ made an EFI install when you were expecting a BIOS
install, say.)
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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* bug#34184: Nitpick on reconfigure message: Installing for i386-pc platform.
2019-01-23 22:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-24 7:41 ` swedebugia
2019-01-25 22:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
@ 2019-02-12 17:46 ` Leo Famulari
2 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Leo Famulari @ 2019-02-12 17:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: 34184
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:27:26PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Maybe we should
>
> 1) prefix messages from other tools with the name of the tool, and
> 2) hide these tool messages by default behind descriptive messages like
> “installing bootloader”
Yes, absolutely. We just had another person ask about this on IRC.
It may not be the most important thing to fix overall, but it's one of
the first things people see when starting with a Guix system so it is
important.
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* bug#34184: Nitpick on reconfigure message: Installing for i386-pc platform.
2019-01-23 21:12 bug#34184: Nitpick on reconfigure message: Installing for i386-pc platform swedebugia
2019-01-23 21:40 ` Leo Famulari
2019-01-23 22:14 ` Julien Lepiller
@ 2020-05-13 21:52 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Ricardo Wurmus @ 2020-05-13 21:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 34184-done
I believe this was fixed by commit
21fcfe1ee969cc477dc41486ae4074e655d44274.
Closing.
--
Ricardo
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