On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 07:31:02PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:23:06PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > > It is there as part of the installer to make like easier > > for those wishing to do things that the installer does not > > support by default. It has nothing whatsoever to do with > > cramfs or the kernel. > > you're just wrong. the 2.4 kernel images have a feature to drop to a > prompt at boot time. this will come up at every boot. i question the > utility of this feature, because there's not much you can do from this > shell, but it's much to late to change at this point. it is worth > documenting. > It's documented (now) in the "Securing Debian Manual" (in CVS, the online pages have not been yet updated). However, IMHO it does not take that long to fix the kernel-image-2.4 packages by removing this issue. Not know about the kernel used after installation, though. Javi
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