Re: LILO

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>]

>>"Itai" == Itai Zukerman <zukerman@math-hat.com> writes:

 Itai> You know, I bet most of this discussion could've been avoided if you'd
 Itai> just said "man 5 kernel-img.conf" instead of getting angry.  There's a
 Itai> lot of documentation in kernel-package; it took me >1 hour to find it.

	I did. You have just demonstrated that you did not even read
 the context of the discussion, and have ignored my pointer to the
 detailed documentation. 
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To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: LILO
Date: 10 May 2001 16:12:16 -0500
Message-ID: <[🔎] 87y9s4q573.fsf@glaurung.green-gryphon.com>

 ....

        manoj
hint: read man 5 kernel-img.conf for details
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	Indeed, given the current predilection not to read
 documentation, to ignore pointers to the documentation, and to start
 slinging solutions without examining the problem space, I doubt there
 is anything I could have done to prevent this thread from blowing
 up. I must also confess I am underwhelmed by the amount of thought
 and preparation that went into the various schemes proposed in this
 thread to solve a mostly non-existent problem.  

 Itai> I still feel it would be better if the boot loaders conformed to a
 Itai> common interface, though.  What if I write a new boot loader?
 Itai> Everyone who installs it will need to change their kernel-img.conf.

	*Sigh* Those people have to do more anyway to change their
 setup; they have to set up the new boot loader for themselves, and
 editing kernel-img.conf can be an integral part of setting up the
 boot loader. If you have noticed, /etc/kernel-img.conf is *NOT* a
 conffile precisely for this reason. 

	I have no objection to people writing boot loaders to conform
 to some standard that they come up with. I am just pointing out that
 the Debian infrastructure does not _require_ them to do so, we have a
 perfectly competent work around.

	manoj
 who had really expected better from fellow developers
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