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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: machine reboot & kernel maxusers option
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J Wunsch  <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>I really don't like the two dozen ``foo: not found at address ...''
>messages for the installation kernel.

I like it. A lot. I hate systems that don't tell me what the hell they're
doing on boot-up (see also, Windows NT, SCO, Unixware).

How about at least an "options BOOTVERBOSE" for us belt-and-suspenders types?