Bug#61930: boot floppy creation failure messages insufficient
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Daniel Barclay <Daniel.Barclay@digitalfocus.com> writes:
> > > It would be extremely helpful if the command to be executed were
> > > logged to that virtual console, so one could see the arguments
> > > to the command, since the command's error messages are useless
> > > for that.
> > It does -- use the debug flag.
>
> Why not log it to the virtual console so it can be seen when a
> problem occurs?
It is: tty3.
It just doesn't do this by default. Nor should it.
> (Think about non-developer but experienced users.
> I knew to look around at other consoles, but didn't know about any
> debug flag.)
It's in the instructions. Even non-developers should know how to read
the instructions off the rescue disk.
> Also, the debug flag to what? I don't recall having typed in
> any commands to which to add a debug flag.
It's a boot argument.
I'll look into the disk creation problem, though.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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