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Bug#61930: boot floppy creation failure messages insufficient



Daniel Barclay <Daniel.Barclay@digitalfocus.com> writes:

> Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > It just doesn't do this by default.  Nor should it.
> 
> Why shouldn't it?  

Because outputting the commands run is debugging info.  Having
debugging info emitted by default has the adverse affect of obscuring
actual error messages.

> tty3 is an out-of-the-way place you _already_ write some messages.  Why 
> not write information that makes those existing messages useful?
> 
> (I'm not talking about wads of debug information, just basic logging.)

We're working on it.  Do you volunteer?

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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