Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755223AbZANSgE (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:36:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750852AbZANSfv (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:35:51 -0500 Received: from mail-in-16.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.56]:47799 "EHLO mail-in-16.arcor-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751765AbZANSfu (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:35:50 -0500 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Subject: Re: The policy on initramfs decompression failure To: Ingo Molnar , Alain Knaff , "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , Al Viro Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:35:44 +0100 References: User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@gmx.de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1019 Lines: 16 Ingo Molnar wrote: > Exactly how is such a warning different from other warnings that the > kernel already emits? For which people supposedly have to set up a serial > console? (which they dont have to) > > Answer: A warning is given if the systen knows the correct way how to deal with the situation, even if it shouldn't be there. How would you know that any system being at the compiled-in default root device location (e.g. /dev/sda1, if I did not have raid) WILL NOT boot unless I intend it to boot? Maybe it's a rescue system supposed to run from initrd only? Or a public terminal supposedly running from initrd + network only, where /dev/sda is the client's USB stick? Or it's a remote setup, and panic() will reboot into the old, working setup? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/