Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jul 1999 23:14:06 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: PATCH to support dotted base directory names |
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On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 04:32:48PM -0400, Rick Hohensee wrote: > My "distribution" can't because I don't use a bootloader at install time.
why not? You could just use LILO to boot the kernel with no timeouts and all the parameters you want in the world.
> Install versions of the kernel I use may well not have the
> > > + panic("No init or shell found. Try passing > init=</path/to/command>" > > > + " to the kernel with your bootloader."); > > > This is *much* simpler than using a bootloader. Are bootloaders > multi-lingual?
if your users need a multilingual distribution, how do you expect them to understand this error message?
> I don't think you're opposed to the code, > though. Surely not. I think you're opposed to the choice.
but I am opposed to the code. I'm opposed to doing anything in the kernel that can be done equally well in userspace. I think Linux is too big, and I welcome anything which makes it smaller, cleaner or more straightforward.
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-- Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai> "Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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