Re: "GRUB Loading kernel..." message

[Isaac Dupree]

Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 07:24:56PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> > I thought I remembered somewhere a discussion how the message
> > "GRUB Loading kernel"
> > is confusing, because it doesn't say what kernel it's loading, and grub 
> > loads lots of kernels
>
> I think this is not accurate.  GRUB loads payloads.  It doesn't care if they're
> a standalone OS like invaders.elf or the kernel part of an OS that resides on
> disk/network/whatever.

okay, I'm getting pedantic, but that is very much from GRUB 
point-of-view; GRUB certainly does load payloads, but from non-GRUB 
point-of-view, those payloads are often also OS kernels.  So if you know 
GRUB terminology, GRUB would never say it was loading a kernel when it 
was loading a payload, because it neither knows nor cares whether anyone 
else would call that payload a "kernel".  Rather convincing.  Although, 
it would still be as accurate for a user to say that "GRUB is loading 
linux kernel" as it would be, if I'm blindly eating food, for someone to 
say I'm eating a banana.  But I don't care so much about philosophy, 
just that "GRUB Loading kernel" confuses lots of people and it seems 
we've found a just-as-good wording that doesn't :-)

Anyway, any change of the message vs. GRUB Legacy means that we can tell 
from the message whether it's GRUB1 or GRUB2 :-D

should I send a patch to change the message from "Loading kernel" to 
"Loading"?

-Isaac