Hi! > > > Because userland only begins quite late in the boot process, and > > > userland may hang. > > > > Initrd means userland is started very early on most machines these > > days, and kernel may hang, too. > > 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. So... you actually have speech-enabled grub/lilo/something? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/