Re: Thoughts on the state of the boot-floppies

[Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>]

Erik Andersen wrote:
> I ran soma basic tests on the boot floppies this evening, 
> and here are some thoughts on what I saw:
> 
> * booting rescue disk as "rescue" causes a kernel panic 
> 
> * mount reports /dev/root for the root device since /etc/fstab
>     doesn't have an entry for the root device (/dev/ram1 for example).

Not a problem here as we just use it to remount / rw.

> * There should probably be an /etc/nsswitch.conf file in /etc.
> 
> * /lib/libm.so.6 is 111k.  I didn't check who was using it,
>     but if it is just one app it should be staticly linked.
>     If several apps are using it, it should be passed through 
>     the library shrinking pass.

Even bigger on sparc: 198k !
It is used at least by dbootstrap and ae on my sparc system because libslang is
depending on cos(), log()... functions.  Don't know why however.

> * ash should have command editing via arrow keys.  I have a patch
>     to do this.  adds < .5k

Are you sure it works on all terminal types?

Regards.

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