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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: bug#34184: Nitpick on reconfigure message: Installing for i386-pc
	platform.
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 23:27:26 +0100
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Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:

> Le 23 janvier 2019 22:12:58 GMT+01:00, swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>=
 a =C3=A9crit :
>>"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=E2=80=A6

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
=E2=80=9Cinstalling bootloader=E2=80=9D

What do you think?

--
Ricardo