On Aug 26, 2011, at 2:07 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > It seems that after the introduction of the mountroot scripting language a user > now has exactly one chance to try to specify a correct root device at the > mountroot prompt. I am not sure that that is convenient/enough. This is no different from before. > I suspect that the following code is the cause: > > static void > vfs_mountroot_conf0(struct sbuf *sb) > { > char *s, *tok, *mnt, *opt; > int error; > > sbuf_printf(sb, ".onfail panic\n"); > … Yes. It is certainly a behavior we can improve upon. It's rather annoying to get a panic on a typo. However, we must remain cognizant of the fact that an immediate hard failure is what's needed at times. Maybe a good approach is to change to ".onfail retry" and extend the root mount prompt with a reboot command, so that the user/operator is does not have to worry about typos *and* don't have to trigger a panic just so that he/she can initiate a reboot. Thoughts? -- Marcel Moolenaar marcel_at_xcllnt.netReceived on Sat Aug 27 2011 - 13:16:54 UTC
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