Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Apr 1996 23:39:38 +0200 | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Subject | Re: Ext2 Problem |
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aeb: No, it is unfortunate that it is needed, but the only clean solution is just to tell the kernel what the type of the rootfs is. And it is no big deal - just one line in lilo.conf.
tytso: But that assumes that you are using lilo --- there are many other ways of booting a kernel, from loadlin to booting straight from a floppy. I'd rather not assume the presence of LILO.
Oh, please ... We have good autodetection - it works 99.9% of the time. We have boot loaders that know about kernel boot line arguments - really required in many cases. You can't be serious suggesting to `improve' the autodetection to 99.97% and pollute the kernel code by just using another plausible heuristic?
Andries
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