Re: initrd-tools and booting root on lvm with new kernel
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:08:39PM +0200, Maximilian Attems wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:24:49PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Maximilian Attems <maks@sternwelten.at> wrote:
> <snipp>
> > > also it would be _very_ cool to do the switch after a major upload.
> > > just the switch to the newer tools and nothing else.
> > > ubuntu has been bitten by this transition.
> > > the user won't recognise that the oops is not the kernel fault.
> > > the best plan would be to do it after an 2.6.13-1 upload:
> > > an 2.6.13-2 with only this change.
> >
> > If I understand you correctly then that only helps users frewuently
> > bringing their system up-to-date, and not someone doing a dist-upgrade
> > a year from now...
>
> the linux-images get _lots_ of bug reports if something fails,
> and history tells that user confuse easily initrd-tools and kernel bugs.
> they won't notice that their oops is not a kernel trouble,
> but eventual broken early userland.
> it's about ironing out the changes and having an easy short term fall back.
Well, i feel that they are right in their approach, and i have the strong
believe that the kernel team should kind of take care of the other pieces of
code needed to make it work, and this include both the initrd-generating tools
as well as the bootloaders.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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