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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. -- `O O' | Home: Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk http://www.alfie.demon.co.uk/ // ^ \\ | Work: Nick.Holloway@parallax.co.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/faq.html | ||||||||||||
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