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In article <9r4c24$g2k$1@cesium.transmeta.com>,
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

| The right thing is to get rid of the old initrd compatibility cruft,
| but that's a 2.5 change.

  Get rid of??? As long as you have some equivalent capability to get
the system up.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  His first management concern is not solving the problem, but covering
his ass. If he lived in the middle ages he'd wear his codpiece backward.
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