Re: Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

Steve McIntyre, le Sat 14 Feb 2009 02:11:12 +0000, a écrit :
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 03:06:46AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >Steve McIntyre, le Sat 14 Feb 2009 01:50:17 +0000, a écrit :
> >> Samuel: can you justify it for me please?
> >
> >I thought we had been through this discussion already...  Anyway, once
> >more.
> >
> >Blind people do still use loadlin: neither syslinux, grub, or lilo is
> >accessible for them yet. DOS, on the contrary, is ; loadlin is hence
> >their best alternative for being able to pass parameters to the kernel.
> 
> Right, OK. Thanks. I'd personally not seen this mentioned anywhere
> before now.

Ok, so maybe it'd be good to write it down somewhere safe to make sure
this reason doesn't get forgotten :)

> I'll do my best to put loadlin back in on i386/amd64 images before we
> build tomorrow.

Thanks!

Samuel