Bug#71661: [Bug-grub] Bug#71661: bug: grub should be more verbose

[Andreas Tille]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:

>   Ok, how about this?
> 
> 1. Check if stage1 and stage2 really exist before running the command
> install in the command setup. If not, print which file is missing.
> 2. Add, say, --prefix=DIR into the command setup.
> 3. If the user doesn't specify the prefix, the command setup looks for
> /boot/grub/stage1, and, if not found, then /grub/stage1 automatically.
> 
> I guess that this scheme could fix frequently reported problems
> (especially in novices). If this sounds good, I'll implement this.
It doesn't sound good, it sounds *great*!
It would help very much and would help novices like me.

Kind regards and thanks for the nice bootmanager

          Andreas.