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From: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>, "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Subject: Re: CML2-2.1.3 is available
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:19:07 -0500
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On Tuesday 15 January 2002 03:41 pm, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>:
> > > > Release 2.1.3: Tue Jan 15 14:41:45 EST 2002
> > > > 	* The `vitality' flag is gone from the language.  Instead, the
> > > > 	  autoprober detects the type of your root filesystem and forces
> > > > 	  its symbol to Y.
> > >
> > > What happens if you compile a kernel for another machine?  Or
> > > cross-compile?
> >
> > In that case you can't use the autoconfigurator anyway.
>
> Sorry.  I passed over "autoprober" too fast.  As long as auto* stuff can
> be turned off that fine.

It's optional.

I -STILL- can't figure out why the autoprober doesn't just look in 
/proc/mounts to figure out who and what our root device and filesystem are.

I need to set up a system that boots to an initrd and puts the root device 
lives on a samba server just to confuse eric's autoprober.  Hmmm...  I wonder 
if that would work? :)

Rob

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