From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: 34184@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34184: Nitpick on reconfigure message: Installing for i386-pc platform.
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 23:27:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imyf57sh.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AD5266AE-BD56-4652-8824-85AB3E773338@lepiller.eu>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-23 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2019-01-24 7:41 ` swedebugia
2019-01-25 22:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-02-12 17:46 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-13 21:52 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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