on 14/10/2011 16:37 Marcel Moolenaar said the following: > > On Oct 14, 2011, at 12:51 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> on 30/08/2011 13:01 Andriy Gapon said the following: >>> >>> So, just to re-iterate, I think that this is indeed a regression and the one >>> that could be particularly unhelpful for a new release - the time when >>> people >>> are much more likely to end up at the mountroot prompt during an >>> installation of >>> a new system or an upgrade. >> >> Marcel, >> >> is there any chance that this regression can be fixed before the release? > > Probably, yes. How do you want to fix this?
Simple: revert to the previous behavior. If a user enters incorrect device name (i.e. root mounting fails), then return back to the prompt instead of panicing. > You haven't really expressed > what you would like to see, other than mentioning that you think it's a > regression from before. I thought that what I wrote above was kind of obvious. > Arguably, the previous behaviour had a lot to be > desired for so since you're worried about the user experience, thinking > this through is important. I didn't see anything bad with the previous behavior in this respect. >> If not, then maybe it would be proper to pull the change that introduced it >> out >> of the release branch (r214006) ? > > Don't be ridiculous. > -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
