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Pavel Machek, le Sat 01 Sep 2007 17:23:02 +0000, a écrit :

Hi!

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Because userland only begins quite late in the boot process, and
userland may hang.

Initrd means userland is started very early on most machines these
days, and kernel may hang, too.

Very early is not so early, and loading initrd itself may actually fail.
The kernel may indeed hang, but there are more chances to get some
messages before the hang.  Don't _you_ have a VGA screen for getting
earliest failure messages from the kernel?

No. I'm using framebuffer, that's initialized quite late in boot
process. Plus many users just use bootsplash. I do use vga mode for
heavy debugging, but that's quite unusual.

But that's what some people do for their work, so they need it.

So... you actually have speech-enabled grub/lilo/something?

That's in project too (and there's no reason it shouldn't be done).

Samuel