On 03/21/2011 02:18 PM, dave boland wrote: > NEVER EVER hang the system because one sub-system is not responding. > Seems like good advice for Debian (or the kernel).
live-boot, albeit pretty crude, doesn't care about that.. if the kernel hangs, the whole system hangs, there's nothing we can do about that. > That said, I will check the drive jumpers as soon as I have an hour > (allow for things that just happen). However, this should not be needed > because Debian 5 and everything based on it still boots just fine. > Thus, I doubt that the jumper is the proximate cause of the boot > problem. in a perfect world, any newer version of a piece of software would not have regressions or new bugs. however, with any complex software.. just because an older version of the kernel did interact in a specific way with hardware doesn't mean that a newer version necessarily does to. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d876a9f.4060...@progress-technologies.net
