[OLPC-devel] Re: Boot menus and other fun topics

[Jordan Crouse]

On 26/07/06 10:25 -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
> On 7/26/06, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> wrote:
> 
> >quick question. What's the path when things go wrong?
> 
> It drops to a shell.  The ./linuxrc he just checked in does a lot of
> what we were talking about last night in the conference.

However, it does not drop to a shell if something goes wrong with
the USB boot.  These are good point, I'll make the changes right now.

On a slightly different subject - is it OK with everybody if the shell is
on serial?  The ongoing intent is that we try to avoid internationalization
issues during boot.  I figure if we have this pretty
UI and then drop to a english based shell, it would be confusing.  At least 
if the shell is on serial, then it would require a bit more knowledge to
response to the situation while at the same time not limiting people who 
really want to hack.

perhaps we can come up with some icons that would indicate that the
boot failed and that the shell has been started - serving as a signal that
the user should connect to the serial port, while at the same time providing
some feedback other then a blank screen and no kernel boot.

Jordan

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Jordan Crouse
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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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