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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Toerless Eckert wrote:
> > resource lacking. You can do your's best. You already posted here about
> > problems of booting from such controller, and it is recorded in mailing
> > list archives. If you can, fix it. If no, change hardware and hope that
> > somebody will fix it as soon as possible.
> 
> Mailinglists are not a good way of archiving known information,
> it takes far too much work for people to search that information.
> I think if it's known that booting works/does-not-work for a given
> combination of hw then it would be good to document it in a bit less
> volatile documentation like the manual page or HW compatbilitiy list or
> whatever else is easie found than mailinglists archives.

Are you volunteering?

-- Terry