From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: bug#34184: Nitpick on reconfigure message: Installing for i386-pc platform. Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 23:37:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87h8dwmki5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <016c95a4-cd49-d733-29a2-80bd2b44d4cc@riseup.net> <87imyf57sh.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46766) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnA6t-0005aq-6F for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2019 17:38:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnA6s-0004tn-DS for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2019 17:38:03 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:46425) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnA6s-0004tW-9J for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2019 17:38:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gnA6s-0004Gg-1X for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2019 17:38:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87imyf57sh.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Wed, 23 Jan 2019 23:27:26 +0100") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: 34184@debbugs.gnu.org Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Julien Lepiller 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=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? Good idea, that would avoid confusions; I=E2=80=99m fine one way or the oth= er. 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 =E2=80=98grub-install=E2=80=99 made an EFI install when you were expecting = a BIOS install, say.) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.