On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:52:47 +0200 maximilian attems wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Please provide pointers to official statements supporting the claim > > that this is a release-critical issue. > > wooow. > > any hand build "monolithic" kernel mounts root thanks to bootarg > root=/dev/sdaX > > (yes back in 2.4 time it made a hole lot of sense to hand build your > kernels due to strange inter dependencies of the subsystems and > without building all subsystems you got better performance) > > so there is a _big_ build your own kernel linux tradition, > there is even a chapter on it for the d-i manual "further steps" or > so.. now tell all of them that yaird is ah so clever to be able to > ignore the kernel commandline. > > you should check your own docs, on your website you have an hole > section "Kernel command line parameters" where you state to parse > ydebug for debug purpose, init, ro and rw, but not _yet_ root. > > it is expected from any initrd/initramfs generator, that they are > able to parse the important boot kernel-parameters.txt. Any > mkinitrd generated initrd/initramfs can do that across debian, > fedora, gentoo, mandrake, rh, suse. How do any of the above make this bug release-critical? No need to waste time writing long explanation to get it through my thick skull, just point me to relevant policy definition or release-team statement, please. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
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