On 03.12.2007 02:10, Callum Lerwick wrote: > On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 20:03 +0100, dragoran wrote: >> [..] >>> I didn't say we should have all modules in the initrd. But having the >>> most common would IMHO a good thing. >> +1 for having all pata/sata drivers in the initrd by default. > One of the things that used to make Linux superior to Windows is the > fact that you could pop out a hard drive and plug it into an entirely > different machine, and it would Just Work. strong +1 > Well, except for X. Stupid X. Which is getting fixed afaik, so it should "just work" in the future as well. > [...] > But then initrds were introduced, and now we're baking in system > specifics into it. Now I have all kinds of trouble with drivers not > being found, and volume groups not being found. Only solution is to boot > a rescue disk and rebuild the initrd, using an incredibly arcane series > of commands. I pity the n00b who tries to upgrade their system. +1 -- for us here on the list it's no big deal, but for ordinary users its a PITA that often leads them to reinstall linux, which leads to "Linux is complicated" statements. CU knurd -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
