On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:07:11PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:37:21AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Anyway, I don't see that this is a very good solution. Disabling all of the > > available boot options for the system doesn't prevent incidental breakage, > > it just changes the *kind* of incidental breakage you get. > It makes it impossible to break by accident. It don't help against hand > made breakages. This is a social problem which can't be fixed by a > technical solution. Then what does this have to do with the problem people are trying to solve? The problem is that there is *no* kernel available in sarge that meets the needs of the etch udev and lvm packages, and as a result people have to install a new kernel, reboot, and then continue with the upgrade -- and failing to follow these directions means hours of pain trying to recover from an interrupted dist-upgrade (in particular for those users who have little or no dpkg knowledge/experience). > > Anything that introduces the possibility of the system breaking on > > reboot/power failure is *worse* than this. > Hu? The kernel image have to be configured already. *What* kernel image? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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