Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 12:53:21 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: machine reboot & kernel maxusers option Message-ID: <199511051153.MAA11051@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199511051031.VAA32280@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Nov 5, 95 09:31:26 pm
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Bruce Evans writes: > > >> > I've been voting for hiding the ``not found'' messages behind the > >> > "bootverbose" (boot -v) case long ago, but nobody seems to agree. :) > >> > > >> > >> i agree with you - i think this should be the sense of a "-v" flag - normally > >> you should'ne see what's missing (if it is something impotant you'll see it if > >> something is'nt working :-) - but you shoud have a chance to look more careful > >> at all the device probes (using boot -v) > > >I'll go along with that. "Not found" also scares off people who don't > >realize that it's a normal state of affairs. > > It's only normal (and not good) for GENERIC and other bloated kernels. Would you like to hazard a guess about what percentage of people really, *really* customize their kernels? Even if you do, you might need to keep things in that you don't have (I haven't found a clean way to remove CD-ROM support, for example). You're right, though, that doesn't make it good. Greg
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