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From(Nick Holloway)
SubjectRe: VIA chipsets all bad? I think not.
Date7 Sep 1998 22:54:08 +0100
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:
> At least some of it appears to be boot image types and hardware.

The distributions have a balancing act between unsafe probing and not
having the driver required for installation.  I expect more modular
drivers and initrd will help in the fullness of time.

I know of one machine that the current Debian rescue disk causes to lock
up completely on booting.  It appears to be a probe for a SCSI controller,
that I am guessing hits one of the many network cards.

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