Bug#606806: initramfs-tools: Handling of numeric root= arguments is not udev-friendly
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 09:31:44AM +0100, H.-R. Oberhage wrote:
> On Dec 11, Evan Broder wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > > Maybe this feature should simply be deprecated. What do you use it for?
It is used by LILO.
> I strongly object as long as GRUB and especially GRUB2 are such a mess that
> they either forcefully invade the MBR
No, you have to explicitely install it.
> need additional undocumented
> sector space in track 0 (which destroys e.g. recovery mechanisms on notebooks)
This is unallocated space, so free for use. In case of GPT, this area is
already filled completely with information and you need a real entry for
the bootloader data.
> or refuse to go into (only) a partition boot sector at all (GRUB2)!
It does?
> This is also the answer to you question what I use 'it' for, namely simply
> LILO.
We never talked about deprecating LILO. It just needs to stop mangling
the information.
Bastian
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