Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Installing kernel 2.4 | Date | Wed, 08 Nov 2000 09:05:56 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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"Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org> said:
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> Your way out in the weeds. What started this thread was a customer who > ended up loading the wrong arch on a system and hanging. I have to > post a kernel RPM for our release, and it's onerous to make customers > recompile kernels all the time and be guinea pigs for arch ports.
I'd prefer to be a guinea pig for one of 3 or 4 generic kernels distributed in binary than of one of the hundreds of possibilities of patching a kernel together at boot, plus the (presumamby rather complex and fragile) machinery to do so *before* the kernel is booted, thank you very much.
Plus I'm getting pissed off by how long a boot takes as it stands today...
> They just want it to boot, and run with the same level of ease of use > and stability they get with NT and NetWare and other stuff they are used > to. This is an easy choice from where I'm sitting.
Easy: i386. Or i486 (I very much doubt your customers run on less, and this should be geneic enough). -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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