Re: grub-probe without arguments

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:19:30PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Monday 07 May 2007 22:06, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:23:08PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > > On Monday 07 May 2007 10:21, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > > I think it would be reasonable to allow grub-probe to work without
> > > > arguments. Any comments?
> > >
> > > Why do you think so?
> >
> > Because it's commonly invoked while debugging.  The uninitiated might have
> > some trouble figuring out the right parameter (specialy if they're not
> > debugging themselves, but providing information for someone else to debug
> > e.g. via BTS).
> 
> The right parameter depends on system status. For instance, if you are trying 
> to install GRUB from an installer, and a boot partition is mounted at 
> somewhere else (e.g. /mnt/boot), it won't work correctly, anyway. I prefer 
> that grub-probe gets an argument explicitly, so that the user can at least 
> understand that grub-probe probes a certain directory.

Ah, ok.  I understand.

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