Re: Idea: elimination of the normal mode

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> > 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.
> So the rescue shell has filesystems and a shell? Is the "advanced
> console interface" so huge that it can't live with the shell and the
> filesystems in the rescue shell?

It has anything what core provides. If by this you get core smaller then 
I am all for it. If it makes it larger then I would propose to find free 
space from somewhere else. Core.img just have to be standalone 
application so user can do recovery if something gets wrong in 
installation or something else.

I do not know how well grub scripting is integrated to normal mode so 
check that out first.