On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 05:04:55PM +0200, Florian Gleixner wrote:
in the "good old times" this was possible with Suse and other Linux distros.
1999 or even earlier?
They included a "monster initrd" that probed all hardware and you could swap harware like mad.
And booting takes additional 10 or more seconds or might fail at all. And we'll see an additional thread how slow SUSE Linux or Linux in general starts.
One thing windows never was able to handle. Yesterday i found out how to build this monster initrd (mkinitrd -A) and all Hardware runs now. But the next kernel patch will build a new initrd and if i don't take care, i have to rebuild the monster initrd in a rescue system again.
How about adding an article to the openSUSE wiki? Have you tried the repair mode supported by booting from CD/ DVD? See http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:YaST_System_Repair I've used this some days before mainly by curiosity and was surprised by the positive result. At the end I got my system booting again. Even if I had to tweak manually a bit.
So my proposals: - Add a grub entry with a monster initrd - Add a Yast module or something else to put the loaded and in use modules to your configuration (initrd, modprobe.conf, ....)
This could make Linux as flexible as it was in the "good old times". Or am i missing something?
You miss the needs of the majority. This is like the request to add an automatism to keep the currently running kernel installed. If you need this you're in trouble and you're willing to kick the developers from the back. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany