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

[Jim Gettys]

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 09:50 -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> 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.

If you are in a shell, you are likely having to deal with English a
large amount, anyway.

> 
> 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.

Maybe a symbol for a doctor?
                                - Jim

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Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child