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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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