Re: Idea: elimination of the normal mode

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> > Idea of the rescue shell is load other modules in case grub itself
> > cannot find them. It provides thin layer of tools so user is able to
> > find them.
> >
> > Personally I would like to keep this functionality in core.img. 
> So, how is the "rescue shell" different that "grub itself". Why would it
> find modules that "grub itself" does not find?

User can use ls and insmod commands to load those modules from disk. 
Most common problem with GRUB legacy is that it just prints GRUB on 
screen. This will kinda remove that problem as user still has a way to 
boot his system with some keypresses.