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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: Bootscreen
To: wa1hco@adelphia.net (jeff millar)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:40:11 +0000 (GMT)
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> I imagine someone with the right documentation could say exactly what's
> going on at each step.

Hmmm, I think the traditional text diagnostic messages are best kept
as they are, otherwise we'll end up with bug reports like this:

Date: Jan 28 14:39:29 2006
Subject: Kernel 3.6.2 boot failiure
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Hi,

I just upgraded from 3.6.1, which booted fine, to 3.6.2, which stops
after Tux has waved twice, and winked his left eye.

John
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