Messages in this thread | | | From | "Dave Cinege" <> | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 98 02:23:46 -0500 | Subject | Re: devfs patch v3 |
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On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 22:59:55 -0800 (PST), H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> >> On 11 Jan 1998 19:00:30 GMT, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >> >> If it hasen't been brought up I here by throw it into the loop. (I'll >> start >> >> following this thread from now on) >> >> >> > >> >There has been a problem (scsidev, I think) to do this in user-space >> >for a long time... >> >> The problem with this it is SCSI only and it doesn't help you if >> you move your boot partitions or reorder the partitions surrounding it. >> (Not to mention the other problems with the current system) >> > >Not if you put it on initrd.
As the guy that just added some new initrd features, which makes it much easier to deal with (as does your syslinux ; > ), I'll be the first to say I don't feel this is reasonable. What would you do? Play with images or archives everytime there needs to be a boot change? I personally don't even like having to run LILO with every kernel change.
Something like this seems more like a Q&D hack instead of doing it right. MHO
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