[arch-commits] Commit in syslinux/trunk (syslinux-install_update)

Anatol Pomozov anatolik at archlinux.org
Mon Feb 13 02:48:10 UTC 2017


    Date: Monday, February 13, 2017 @ 02:48:08
  Author: anatolik
Revision: 288769

Make error message cleaner for non-partitioned disks

syslinux requires partition table is we want to install MBR or active bit.
Make the error message cleaner.

Inspired by https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=223038

Modified:
  syslinux/trunk/syslinux-install_update

-------------------------+
 syslinux-install_update |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Modified: syslinux-install_update
===================================================================
--- syslinux-install_update	2017-02-12 21:34:51 UTC (rev 288768)
+++ syslinux-install_update	2017-02-13 02:48:08 UTC (rev 288769)
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@
     # If any bootdev is a block device without partitions bail
     # we want to set the boot flag on partitioned disk
     for dev in "${!bootdevs[@]}"; do
-        dev_is_part $dev || { echo "$dev - is a block device. Aborting set_active!"; return 1; }
+        dev_is_part $dev || { echo "$dev does not contain partition table. Aborting set_active!"; return 1; }
     done
 
     # Clear BIOS Bootable Legacy Attribute for GPT drives
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@
     # If any bootdev is a block device without partitions bail
     # we want to install the mbr to a partitioned disk
     for dev in "${!bootdevs[@]}"; do
-        dev_is_part "$dev" || { echo "$dev - is a block device. Aborting MBR install"; return 1; }
+        dev_is_part "$dev" || { echo "$dev does not contain partition table. Aborting MBR install."; return 1; }
     done
 
     for part in "${!bootdevs[@]}"; do



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