Re: missing prefix not fatal

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Jul 13, 2005, at 4:59 PM, Vincent Pelletier wrote:
> > > Index: kern/dl.c
> > > ===================================================================
> > > RCS file: /cvsroot/grub/grub2/kern/dl.c,v
> > > retrieving revision 1.10
> > > diff -u -p -r1.10 dl.c
> > > --- kern/dl.c   14 Feb 2005 18:41:33 -0000      1.10
> > > +++ kern/dl.c   12 Jul 2005 18:51:52 -0000
> > > @@ -618,7 +618,10 @@ grub_dl_load (const char *name)
> > >     return mod;
> > >
> > >   if (! grub_dl_dir)
> > > -    grub_fatal ("module dir is not initialized yet");
> > > +    {
> > > +      grub_error(0,"module dir is not initialized yet");
> > > +      return 0;
> > > +    }
> >
> >
> > Can you explain this?
>
> Hollis told me it should have been only an error.
> I was getting this fatal in the early stages of porting (after I got 
> the
> ieee calls working and before I got the mm.c problems).
> So I left it in the final patch.
> Hollis, could you confirm / infirm that ?

What do you mean "confirm"? This is simply not a fatal error. If you 
don't have a prefix, you cannot load modules, and that's all.

I need this same change as I've been trying to boot on qemu. It should 
be committed.

-Hollis