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