Re: Bug#469256: kexec-tools: Please use a boolean question with debconf

[Khalid Aziz <khalid@debian.org>]

On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 10:08 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:
> Khalid Aziz wrote:
> > "Please choose whether to enable kexec-tools to load a new kernel
> > automatically on reboots and kexec into the new kernel instead of
> > rebooting into firmware."
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> Mainly, again, "what's new about them?" - kexec _can_ be used to
> load a specified kernel, but that's not the behaviour you get from
> automatic reloads handled by kexec-tools.  What it does by default
> is load /vmlinuz, and that's usually an _old_ kernel.
> 
> Also, I'm not keen on "firmware" (too technical) or "reboots" (when
> you mean restarts that avoid the bootstrapping process).  And this
> is too much work for one sentence.
> 
> How about:
> 
>   Should kexec-tools handle reboots? If you accept this option,
>   invocations of "shutdown -r" will trigger a restart into a kernel
>   loaded by kexec instead of going through the full system bootloader
>   process.
> 

I like this wording except for specifying "shutdown -r". I would suspect
a number of users simply issue a "reboot" command or use reboot option
from gdm menu, and "shutdown -r" may not be as familiar to all users as
reboot might be. Plus I do not want to try to enumerate all possible
commands that could result in kexec reboot. How about this instead:

  Should kexec-tools handle reboots? If you accept this option,
  a system reboot will trigger a restart into a kernel loaded by 
  kexec instead of going through the full system bootloader
  process.

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Khalid Aziz
khalid@debian.org