Pavel Machek, le Sat 01 Sep 2007 18:18:45 +0000, a écrit : > > > > Very early is not so early, and loading initrd itself may actually fail. > > > > The kernel may indeed hang, but there are more chances to get some > > > > messages before the hang. Don't _you_ have a VGA screen for getting > > > > earliest failure messages from the kernel? > > > > > > No. I'm using framebuffer, that's initialized quite late in boot > > > process. Plus many users just use bootsplash. I do use vga mode for > > > heavy debugging, but that's quite unusual. > > > > But that's what some people do for their work, so they need it. > > How many such users are out there?
You know that it's a question that just can't be answered. There are such people, and their employment depend on this. > > > So... you actually have speech-enabled grub/lilo/something? > > > > That's in project too (and there's no reason it shouldn't be done). > > I'd say kernel debugging is hard without accessible bootloader A bootloader with only two entries is not so difficult to use blindly. Samuel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
