Hi, Pavel Machek, le Sat 01 Sep 2007 17:23:02 +0000, a écrit : > 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.
But that's what some people do for their work, so they need it. > So... you actually have speech-enabled grub/lilo/something? That's in project too (and there's no reason it shouldn't be done). 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/